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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 1, 2016Eastland County, Stephens County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 1, 2016, 3:17 AM CST for Eastland County, Stephens County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 1, 2016, 2:00 PM CST. It was in force for 4 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 1, 2016, 3:17 AM CST (09:17 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 1, 2016, 2:00 PM CST
Expired: Feb 1, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

Counties Eastland County, TX, Stephens County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:19 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

397 
WWUS84 KFWD 010917
RFWFWD

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
317 AM CST MON FEB 1 2016

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FOR STEPHENS AND EASTLAND
COUNTIES DUE TO STRONG SOUTH WINDS... WARM TEMPERATURES AND LOW
HUMIDITY VALUES...

.SYNOPSIS...RED FLAG WARNING ISSUED FOR STEPHENS AND EASTLAND
COUNTIES WHERE HUMIDITY IS EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW 25 PERCENT BY
MID TO LATE AFTERNOON BEHIND A DRY LINE. AHEAD OF THE DRY LINE
RELATIVE HUMIDITY IS EXPECTED TO STAY HIGH ENOUGH TO PREVENT A
CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER THREAT.

TXZ100-141-142-011030-
/O.CAN.KFWD.FW.A.0001.160201T1800Z-160202T0000Z/
YOUNG-COMANCHE-MILLS-
317 AM CST MON FEB 1 2016

...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR YOUNG...COMANCHE AND MILLS
COUNTIES...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE
WEATHER WATCH. RELATIVE HUMIDITY IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE 30
PERCENT FOR MOST OF THE AFTERNOON ACROSS YOUNG...COMANCHE AND
MILLS COUNTIES. THIS WILL PREVENT A CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER
THREAT FROM DEVELOPING. HOWEVER THE COMBINATION OF STRONG
WINDS...WARM TEMPERATURES AND DRY AIR MEANS THAT WILDFIRES ARE
STILL POSSIBLE AND EXTREME CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN WHEN ENGAGED IN
ACTIVITIES WHERE FIRES CAN START.

$$

TXZ115-129-011730-
/O.UPG.KFWD.FW.A.0001.160201T1800Z-160202T0000Z/
/O.NEW.KFWD.FW.W.0002.160201T2000Z-160202T0000Z/
STEPHENS-EASTLAND-
317 AM CST MON FEB 1 2016

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM
CST THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND WARM
TEMPERATURES FOR STEPHENS AND EASTLAND COUNTIES...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM CST
THIS EVENING. 

* AFFECTED AREA...STEPHENS AND EASTLAND COUNTIES.

* TIMING...A CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER THREAT WILL DEVELOP BEHIND A
  DRY LINE THAT WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN EASTLAND AND STEPHENS
  COUNTIES AROUND MID AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL DIMINISH AND HUMIDITY
  WILL RECOVER ABOVE 30 PERCENT AFTER 6 PM.

* WINDS...SOUTH AT 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH.

* RH...BELOW 25 PERCENT.

* TEMPERATURES...NEAR 80 DEGREES.

* IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP MAY SPREAD RAPIDLY. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT EXTREME FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE
EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG
WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY VEGETATION CAN CONTRIBUTE
TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. AVOID ALL OUTSIDE BURNING AND WELDING
TODAY. DO NOT TOSS LIT CIGARETTE BUTTS OUTSIDE. REPORT WILD FIRES
TO THE NEAREST FIRE DEPARTMENT OR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE.

&&

$$

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.