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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

February 8, 20165 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 8, 2016, 10:58 AM CST for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 8, 2016, 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
Feb 8, 2016, 10:58 AM CST (16:58 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 8, 2016, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 8, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2016-02-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2016-02-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -119 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

781 
WWUS84 KAMA 081658
RFWAMA

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1058 AM CST MON FEB 8 2016

TXZ010-014-015-019-020-090000-
/O.NEW.KAMA.FW.W.0002.160208T1800Z-160209T0000Z/
HEMPHILL-GRAY-WHEELER-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH-
1058 AM CST MON FEB 8 2016

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR STRONG
WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. 

* AFFECTED AREA...IN TEXAS...HEMPHILL...GRAY...WHEELER...DONLEY AND
  COLLINGSWORTH COUNTIES. 

* 20 FOOT WINDS...20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS.

* HUMIDITY...MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BETWEEN 10 AND 15
  PERCENT.

* 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 WILL
CREATE FAVORABLE WEATHER FOR RAPID FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. AVOID
ACTIVITIES THAT PROMOTE OPEN FLAMES AND SPARKS.

&&

$$

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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.