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Red Flag Warning 21, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at May 4, 2014, 1:28 PM CDT for 13 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 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 4, 2014, 1:28 PM CDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2014, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Beaver County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 4570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
877 WWUS84 KAMA 041828 RFWAMA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 128 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2014 OKZ003-TXZ004-005-008>010-012>015-017>020-050100- /O.NEW.KAMA.FW.W.0021.140504T1828Z-140505T0100Z/ BEAVER-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-POTTER- CARSON-GRAY-WHEELER-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 128 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN OKLAHOMA...BEAVER. IN TEXAS...OCHILTREE... LIPSCOMB...HUTCHINSON...ROBERTS...HEMPHILL...POTTER...CARSON... GRAY...WHEELER...RANDALL...ARMSTRONG...DONLEY AND COLLINGSWORTH. * 20 FOOT WINDS...SOUTHWESTERLY AT 20 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...4 TO 9 PERCENT. * TIMING...THROUGH 8 PM THIS EVENING. 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 FAVORABLE WEATHER FOR RAPID FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. AVOID ACTIVITIES THAT PROMOTE OPEN FLAMES AND SPARKS. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/AMA (ALL LOWER CASE) 14
1 follow-up statement
667 WWUS84 KAMA 042047 RFWAMA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 347 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2014 OKZ003-TXZ004-005-008>010-012>015-017>020-050100- /O.CON.KAMA.FW.W.0021.000000T0000Z-140505T0100Z/ BEAVER-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-POTTER- CARSON-GRAY-WHEELER-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 347 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE... * AFFECTED AREA...IN OKLAHOMA...BEAVER. IN TEXAS...OCHILTREE... LIPSCOMB...HUTCHINSON...ROBERTS...HEMPHILL...POTTER...CARSON... GRAY...WHEELER...RANDALL...ARMSTRONG...DONLEY AND COLLINGSWORTH. * 20 FOOT WINDS...SOUTHWESTERLY AT 20 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...4 TO 8 PERCENT. * TIMING...THROUGH 8 PM THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE FAVORABLE WEATHER FOR RAPID FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. AVOID ACTIVITIES THAT PROMOTE OPEN FLAMES AND SPARKS. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/AMA (ALL LOWER CASE)
Nearby
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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.