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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at May 30, 2013, 4:30 AM CDT for 8 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at May 30, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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
- May 30, 2013, 4:30 AM CDT (09:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 30, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 30, 2013, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:32 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 1401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1451 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 450 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 17.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at May 29, 6:08 PM CDT, 10 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 6:08 PM CDT, 10 hours 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 3:02 PM CDT, 13 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 302 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-300815- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 302 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MAINLY THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE PANHANDLES TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE EAST OF A GUYMON TO WAYSIDE LINE WITH THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND EAST OF A PERRYTON TO CLARENDON LINE. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS...THOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG AND WEST OF A GUYMON TO AMARILLO LINE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES FALL TO 5 TO 15 PERCENT WHILE SOUTHWEST WINDS INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. ELEVATED TO NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL PANHANDLES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS MAY RETURN MONDAY AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH THE BEST CHANCES OVER THE EASTERN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NECESSARY FROM EARLY THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING EAST OF A GUYMON TO WAYSIDE LINE. AREA FIRE MANAGERS AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY AND ELEVATED TO NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. JOHNSON
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2013Red Flag Warnings in Oklahoma, 2013Every red flag warning in 2013
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.