Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 9, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 1, 2012, 4:22 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 1, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT. 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
- Apr 1, 2012, 4:22 AM CDT (09:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 1, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
Counties Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, Nolan County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:28 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 5237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
973 WWUS84 KSJT 010922 RFWSJT URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 422 AM CDT SUN APR 1 2012 ...DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... .THE COMBINATION OF RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF LESS THAN 10 PERCENT... 20 FOOT SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 20 MPH AND HOT TEMPERATURES WILL PRODUCE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE NORTHWEST BIG COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. TXZ049-054-098-113-012100- /O.NEW.KSJT.FW.W.0009.120401T1700Z-120402T0100Z/ FISHER-NOLAN-HASKELL-JONES- 422 AM CDT SUN APR 1 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE NORTHWEST BIG COUNTRY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED COUNTIES: FISHER...NOLAN...HASKELL...JONES. * WIND: 20 FOOT SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 20 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE. * HUMIDITY: LESS THAN 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS: ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. * TIMING: NOON THROUGH 8 PM SUNDAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/SJT
1 follow-up statement
939 WWUS84 KSJT 011943 RFWSJT URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 243 PM CDT SUN APR 1 2012 ...DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... .THE COMBINATION OF RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF LESS THAN 10 PERCENT... 20 FOOT SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 20 MPH AND HOT TEMPERATURES WILL PRODUCE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE NORTHWEST BIG COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. TXZ049-054-098-113-020100- /O.CON.KSJT.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-120402T0100Z/ FISHER-NOLAN-HASKELL-JONES- 243 PM CDT SUN APR 1 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE NORTHWEST BIG COUNTRY... * AFFECTED COUNTIES: FISHER...NOLAN...HASKELL...JONES. * WIND: 20 FOOT SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 20 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE. * HUMIDITY: LESS THAN 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS: ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. * TIMING: NOON THROUGH 8 PM SUNDAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ 15
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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.