Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this red flag warning at Jan 12, 2012, 2:16 AM CST for 7 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 12, 2012, 8:22 AM CST. It was in force for 8 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
- Jan 12, 2012, 2:16 AM CST (08:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 12, 2012, 8:22 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2012, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Brooks County, TX, Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Starr County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:15 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 2596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
282 WWUS84 KBRO 120816 RFWBRO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 216 AM CST THU JAN 12 2012 ...A COLD FRONT WILL BRING AN ENHANCED RISK OF WILDFIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD TODAY... .NORTH WINDS AT 20 FEET WILL PEAK AT AROUND NOON TODAY BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 25 MPH FOR THE INLAND AREAS...BUT THE DRIEST AIR WILL NOT BECOME ESTABLISHED UNTIL MID AFTERNOON...JUST WHEN 20 FOOT WINDS BEGIN DECREASING. THE RELEVANT WEATHER ELEMENTS WILL THUS BE SLIGHTLY OUT OF PHASE. MEETING THE CRITERIA FOR A RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE MARGINAL INLAND...BUT WILL BE JUSTIFIABLE NEAR THE COAST WHERE STRONGER WINDS OF NEAR 25 MPH AT 20 FEET WILL PREVAIL INTO EARLY AFTERNOON WHILE RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES DECREASE. TXZ251-254>257-122100- /O.NEW.KBRO.FW.W.0001.120112T1500Z-120112T2100Z/ KENEDY-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY- COASTAL CAMERON- 216 AM CST THU JAN 12 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 251...254...255...256 AND 257... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 251...254...255...256 AND 257. * WIND...SUSTAINED 20 FOOT NORTH WINDS OF 25 MPH FOR AT LEAST 2 HOURS. * HUMIDITY...BELOW 45 PERCENT FOR AT LEAST 2 HOURS. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. IN GENERAL...THESE CONDITIONS INCLUDE SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF 25 MPH OR GREATER...HUMIDITY RANGING FROM BELOW 25 PERCENT IN ZAPATA COUNTY TO BELOW 45 PERCENT ALONG THE COAST...EACH LASTING FOR 2 HOURS OR MORE... AND CURED FUELS. HUMIDITY BELOW 25 PERCENT IN MOST AREAS WILL TRIGGER FIRE DANGER AT LOWER WIND SPEEDS. DETAILED DECISION TABLES ARE FOUND AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RGV/?N=MAPCOLORS#FIRE. && $$
1 follow-up statement
141 WWUS84 KBRO 121422 RFWBRO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 822 AM CST THU JAN 12 2012 ...STRONG NORTH WINDS AND DROPPING HUMIDITY CONTINUE AN ENHANCED RISK OF WILDFIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD TODAY... .20 FOOT WINDS WILL PEAK FROM THE NORTH THROUGH AROUND NOON TODAY BETWEEN 20 AND 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH FOR THE INLAND AREAS...AS DRIER AIR BEGINS ESTABLISHING ITSELF LATE THIS MORNING. THIS WILL PROVIDE AT LEAST A FEW HOURS OF CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS AS RELATIVE HUMIDITIES DROP AND WINDS REMAIN STRONG AND GUSTY FROM THE NORTH. TXZ249-250-252-253-122200- /O.EXB.KBRO.FW.W.0001.120112T1422Z-120112T2200Z/ JIM HOGG-BROOKS-STARR-HIDALGO- 822 AM CST THU JAN 12 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 249...250... 252 AND 253... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 249...250...252 AND 253. * WIND...SUSTAINED 20 FOOT NORTH WINDS OF 25 MPH FOR AT LEAST 2 HOURS. * HUMIDITY...BELOW 45 PERCENT FOR AT LEAST 2 HOURS. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. IN GENERAL...THESE CONDITIONS INCLUDE SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF 25 MPH OR GREATER...HUMIDITY RANGING FROM BELOW 25 PERCENT IN ZAPATA COUNTY TO BELOW 45 PERCENT ALONG THE COAST...EACH LASTING FOR 2 HOURS OR MORE... AND CURED FUELS. HUMIDITY BELOW 25 PERCENT IN MOST AREAS WILL TRIGGER FIRE DANGER AT LOWER WIND SPEEDS. DETAILED DECISION TABLES ARE FOUND AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RGV/?N=MAPCOLORS#FIRE. && $$ TXZ251-254>257-122200- /O.EXT.KBRO.FW.W.0001.120112T1422Z-120112T2200Z/ KENEDY-INLAND WILLACY-INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY- COASTAL CAMERON- 822 AM CST THU JAN 12 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 251... 254...255...256 AND 257... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 251...254...255...256 AND 257. * WIND...SUSTAINED 20 FOOT NORTH WINDS OF 25 MPH FOR AT LEAST 2 HOURS. * HUMIDITY...BELOW 45 PERCENT FOR AT LEAST 2 HOURS. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. IN GENERAL...THESE CONDITIONS INCLUDE SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF 25 MPH OR GREATER...HUMIDITY RANGING FROM BELOW 25 PERCENT IN ZAPATA COUNTY TO BELOW 45 PERCENT ALONG THE COAST...EACH LASTING FOR 2 HOURS OR MORE... AND CURED FUELS. HUMIDITY BELOW 25 PERCENT IN MOST AREAS WILL TRIGGER FIRE DANGER AT LOWER WIND SPEEDS. DETAILED DECISION TABLES ARE FOUND AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RGV/?N=MAPCOLORS#FIRE. && $$ GIBBS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 9:11 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 31 hr | |
| Jan 12, 12:53 PM CST | Freeze Warning | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr, Willacy and 1 more | 20 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2012Every red flag warning in 2012
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.