Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this red flag warning at Jan 6, 2012, 3:33 AM CST for Pecos County, Texas. It took effect at Jan 6, 2012, 12:00 PM CST. 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
- Jan 6, 2012, 3:33 AM CST (09:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 6, 2012, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 6, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 2984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
264 WWUS84 KMAF 060933 RFWMAF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 333 AM CST FRI JAN 6 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY IN THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS... .INCREASING WEST WINDS WILL BRING VERY DRY AND UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES TO MUCH OF THE AREA TODAY. WINDS IN THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS WILL EXCEED 20 MPH CREATING CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. AREAS NOT IN THE WARNING WILL EXPERIENCE AN ELEVATED FIRE RISK TODAY DUE TO VERY LOW HUMIDITIES. A COLD FRONT WILL REDUCE THE FIRE WEATHER THREAT TONIGHT AND TOMORROW. TXZ057-058-074-080-081-062145- /O.NEW.KMAF.FW.W.0001.120106T1800Z-120107T0000Z/ VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- MARFA PLATEAU-BIG BEND AREA- 333 AM CST FRI JAN 6 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * WIND...WEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. * HUMIDITY...7 TO 15 PERCENT * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... AVOID THE USE OF OPEN FLAMES OR ANY ACTIVITIES THAT MAY GENERATE SPARKS. ACCIDENTAL IGNITIONS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO GROW QUICKLY INTO DANGEROUS WIND- DRIVEN WILDFIRES. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MAF (ALL LOWER CASE)
1 follow-up statement
255 WWUS84 KMAF 061634 RFWMAF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1034 AM CST FRI JAN 6 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY IN THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS... .INCREASING WEST WINDS WILL BRING VERY DRY AND UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES TO MUCH OF THE AREA TODAY. WINDS IN THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS WILL EXCEED 20 MPH CREATING CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. AREAS NOT IN THE WARNING WILL EXPERIENCE AN ELEVATED FIRE RISK TODAY DUE TO VERY LOW HUMIDITIES. A COLD FRONT WILL REDUCE THE FIRE WEATHER THREAT TONIGHT AND TOMORROW. TXZ075-070000- /O.EXA.KMAF.FW.W.0001.120106T1800Z-120107T0000Z/ PECOS- 1034 AM CST FRI JAN 6 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR THE STOCKTON PLATEAU... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * WIND...WEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. * HUMIDITY...7 TO 15 PERCENT * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... AVOID THE USE OF OPEN FLAMES OR ANY ACTIVITIES THAT MAY GENERATE SPARKS. ACCIDENTAL IGNITIONS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO GROW QUICKLY INTO DANGEROUS WIND- DRIVEN WILDFIRES. && $$ TXZ057-058-074-080-081-070000- /O.CON.KMAF.FW.W.0001.120106T1800Z-120107T0000Z/ VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- MARFA PLATEAU-BIG BEND AREA- 1034 AM CST FRI JAN 6 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS... * WIND...WEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. * HUMIDITY...7 TO 15 PERCENT * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... AVOID THE USE OF OPEN FLAMES OR ANY ACTIVITIES THAT MAY GENERATE SPARKS. ACCIDENTAL IGNITIONS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO GROW QUICKLY INTO DANGEROUS WIND- DRIVEN WILDFIRES. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MAF (ALL LOWER CASE)
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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.