Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this red flag warning at May 4, 2014, 5:59 AM CDT for 16 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 4, 2014, 1:00 PM CDT. 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
- May 4, 2014, 5:59 AM CDT (10:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 4, 2014, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 4, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:01 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 3392 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
595 WWUS84 KEWX 041059 RFWEWX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 559 AM CDT SUN MAY 4 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR MUCH OF THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .DRY AND SOARING TEMPERATURES WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL RELATIVE HUMIDITY OVER MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE AREA WILL INCREASE TO CRITICAL LEVELS AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON LEADING TO RED FLAG CONDITIONS. WINDS WILL DROP OFF AFTER 7 PM. TXZ172-173-189>193-205>208-220>224-050000- /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.W.0007.140504T1800Z-140505T0000Z/ BURNET-WILLIAMSON-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-BEXAR-COMAL- GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT- 559 AM CDT SUN MAY 4 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ACROSS MUCH OF THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...THE FOLLOWING SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES... BURNET...WILLIAMSON...KENDALL...BLANCO...HAYS...TRAVIS... BASTROP...BEXAR...COMAL...GUADALUPE...CALDWELL...ATASCOSA... WILSON...KARNES...GONZALES...DE WITT. * 20-FOOT WIND...10 TO 20 MPH. * HUMIDITY...14 TO 20 PERCENT. * THUNDERSTORMS...NONE. THE HIGHEST THREAT AREA WILL BE NORTH OF A LINE FROM BOERNE TO BASTROP WITHIN THE WARNED AREA. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. 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 CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ FOR INFORMATION ON BURN BANS PLEASE VISIT THE TEXAS INTERAGENCY COORDINATION CENTER WEBSITE AT: TICC.TAMU.EDU
1 follow-up statement
231 WWUS84 KEWX 041102 CCA RFWEWX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 601 AM CDT SUN MAY 4 2014 CORRECTED FOR ERROR IN OVERVIEW. ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR MUCH OF THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .DRY AIR AND SOARING TEMPERATURES WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL RELATIVE HUMIDITY OVER MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE AREA WILL INCREASE TO CRITICAL LEVELS AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON LEADING TO RED FLAG CONDITIONS. WINDS WILL DROP OFF AFTER 7 PM. TXZ172-173-189>193-205>208-220>224-050000- /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.W.0007.140504T1800Z-140505T0000Z/ BURNET-WILLIAMSON-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-BEXAR-COMAL- GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT- 601 AM CDT SUN MAY 4 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ACROSS MUCH OF THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...THE FOLLOWING SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES... BURNET...WILLIAMSON...KENDALL...BLANCO...HAYS...TRAVIS... BASTROP...BEXAR...COMAL...GUADALUPE...CALDWELL...ATASCOSA... WILSON...KARNES...GONZALES...DE WITT. * 20-FOOT WIND...10 TO 20 MPH. * HUMIDITY...14 TO 20 PERCENT. * THUNDERSTORMS...NONE. THE HIGHEST THREAT AREA WILL BE NORTH OF A LINE FROM BOERNE TO BASTROP WITHIN THE WARNED AREA. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. 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 CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ FOR INFORMATION ON BURN BANS PLEASE VISIT THE TEXAS INTERAGENCY COORDINATION CENTER WEBSITE AT: TICC.TAMU.EDU
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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.