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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 21, 2012, 1:30 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 2012, 1:30 PM CST (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2012, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Deaf Smith County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 50 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
739 WWUS84 KAMA 211930 RFWAMA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 130 PM CST TUE FEB 21 2012 TXZ011-012-016-017-220100- /O.NEW.KAMA.FW.W.0003.120221T1930Z-120222T0100Z/ OLDHAM-POTTER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL- 130 PM CST TUE FEB 21 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA: IN TEXAS...OLDHAM...POTTER...DEAF SMITH... RANDALL. * WIND: WEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED. * HUMIDITY: RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL FALL BELOW 15 PERCENT. * TIMING: CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...WITH CONDITIONS IMPROVING BY 7 PM. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF 15 PERCENT OR LESS...SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF 20 MPH OR GREATER...AND AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER RATING WILL CREATE RED FLAG CONDITIONS. && $$ COCKRELL FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/AMA
1 follow-up statement
300 WWUS84 KAMA 220055 AAA RFWAMA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 655 PM CST TUE FEB 21 2012 TXZ011-012-016-017-220200- /O.EXP.KAMA.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120222T0100Z/ OLDHAM-POTTER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL- 655 PM CST TUE FEB 21 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE. WINDS HAVE ALREADY DIMINISHED BELOW 20 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN TONIGHT. HUMIDITY VALUES WILL SLOWLY INCREASE TONIGHT. $$ MBS FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/AMA
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.