Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 14, 2016, 3:32 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 14, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Mar 14, 2016, 3:32 AM CDT (08:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 14, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Andrews County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Loving County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 3649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
426 WWUS84 KMAF 140832 RFWMAF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 332 AM CDT MON MAR 14 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 15 PERCENT OR LESS...20 FOOT WINDS OF 20 MPH OR MORE...AND HIGH FIRE DANGER FOR THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS...GUADALUPE...DAVIS AND APACHE MOUNTAINS...VAN HORN AND THE HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR...MARFA PLATEAU...UPPER TRANS PECOS AND WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN... .WINDY AND DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. AS A RESULT...THIS WILL CREATE MORE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. NMZ114-115-TXZ045-050-057>060-067-074-080-258-142030- /O.UPG.KMAF.FW.A.0011.160314T1700Z-160315T0300Z/ /O.NEW.KMAF.FW.W.0013.160314T1700Z-160315T0200Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-SOUTHEAST PLAINS-GAINES-ANDREWS- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-LOVING-WINKLER-WARD- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-MARFA PLATEAU- 332 AM CDT MON MAR 14 2016 /232 AM MDT MON MAR 14 2016/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 15 PERCENT OR LESS...20 FOOT WINDS OF 20 MPH OR MORE...AND HIGH FIRE DANGER FOR THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS...GUADALUPE...DAVIS AND APACHE MOUNTAINS...VAN HORN AND THE HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR...MARFA PLATEAU...UPPER TRANS PECOS AND WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN... * WIND...WEST 20 TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...5 TO 10 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 CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
1 follow-up statement
918 WWUS84 KMAF 141854 RFWMAF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 154 PM CDT MON MAR 14 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 15 PERCENT OR LESS...20 FOOT WINDS OF 20 MPH OR MORE...AND HIGH FIRE DANGER FOR THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS...GUADALUPE...DAVIS AND APACHE MOUNTAINS...VAN HORN AND THE HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR...MARFA PLATEAU...UPPER TRANS PECOS AND WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN... .WINDY AND DRY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...RESULTING IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND HIGH FIRE DANGER. NMZ114-115-TXZ045-050-057>060-067-074-080-258-150200- /O.CON.KMAF.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160315T0200Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-SOUTHEAST PLAINS-GAINES-ANDREWS- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-LOVING-WINKLER-WARD- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-MARFA PLATEAU- 154 PM CDT MON MAR 14 2016 /1254 PM MDT MON MAR 14 2016/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 15 PERCENT OR LESS... 20 FOOT WINDS OF 20 MPH OR MORE...AND HIGH FIRE DANGER FOR THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS...GUADALUPE...DAVIS AND APACHE MOUNTAINS...VAN HORN AND THE HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR...MARFA PLATEAU...UPPER TRANS PECOS AND WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN... * WIND...WEST 20 TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...5 TO 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. && PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
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.