Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 2, 2016, 10:54 AM CST for 7 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 2, 2016, 11:00 AM 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 2, 2016, 10:54 AM CST (16:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 2, 2016, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2016, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Brooks County, TX, Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Starr County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:52 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 489 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
842 WWUS84 KBRO 021654 RFWBRO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 1054 AM CST TUE FEB 2 2016 ...INCREASED THREAT OF RAPID WILDFIRE SPREAD TODAY... .THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY NORTH WINDS...RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES FALLING INTO THE TEENS...AND RAPIDLY DRYING GRASSLAND AND BRUSH WILL INCREASE THE CHANCE FOR RAPID GROWTH OF WILDFIRES THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS MUCH OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. TXZ249>255-022300- /O.NEW.KBRO.FW.W.0003.160202T1700Z-160202T2300Z/ JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON- 1054 AM CST TUE FEB 2 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR FOR THE COMBINATION OF HUMIDITY AT OR BELOW 15 PERCENT...GUSTY NORTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH...AND VERY DRY VEGETATION... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 249...250...251...252... 253...254 AND 255. * WIND...NORTH WINDS FROM 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 25 TO 30 MPH. * HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL FALL TO NEAR 15 PERCENT OR LOWER THROUGH 5 PM. * HIGHEST THREAT...IS LOCATED ACROSS BROOKS...HIDALGO...KENEDY... WESTERN WILLACY AND WESTERN CAMERON COUNTIES. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. IN GENERAL...THESE CONDITIONS INCLUDE SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF 25 MPH OR GREATER...HUMIDITY RANGING FROM BELOW 25 PERCENT IN ZAPATA COUNTY TO BELOW 45 PERCENT ALONG THE COAST...EACH LASTING FOR 2 HOURS OR MORE... AND CURED FUELS. HUMIDITY BELOW 25 PERCENT IN MOST AREAS WILL TRIGGER FIRE DANGER AT LOWER WIND SPEEDS. DETAILED DECISION TABLES ARE FOUND AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RGV/?N=MAPCOLORS#FIRE. && $$
1 follow-up statement
929 WWUS84 KBRO 022307 RFWBRO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 507 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016 ...FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS IMPROVE... .WINDS ARE DECREASING THIS EVENING. TXZ249>255-030015- /O.EXP.KBRO.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160202T2300Z/ JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON- 507 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 249...250...251...252...253...254 AND 255... POST FRONTAL WINDS ARE DECREASING THIS EVENING SUCH THAT THE RED FLAG WARNING CRITERION IS NO LONGER BEING MET. $$
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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.