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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 16, 2019, 9:05 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 16, 2019, 12:00 PM CST. 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
- Feb 16, 2019, 9:05 AM CST (15:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2019, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2019, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:08 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 109 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Feb 16, 5:36 AM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 5:36 AM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 16, 4:26 AM CST, 4 hours 39 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Amarillo TX 426 AM CST Sat Feb 16 2019 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-162230- Cimarron-Texas-Beaver-Dallam-Sherman-Hansford-Ochiltree-Lipscomb- Hartley-Moore-Hutchinson-Roberts-Hemphill-Oldham-Potter-Carson- Gray-Wheeler-Deaf Smith-Randall-Armstrong-Donley-Collingsworth- Palo Duro Canyon- 426 AM CST Sat Feb 16 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. Elevated fire weather conditions are expected across the western Oklahoma Panhandle and the western and central Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle this afternoon with 20 foot west winds of 20 to 35 mph with gusts to near 50 mph and minimum afternoon humidities of around 15 to 20 percent. A Wind Advisory is in effect for the western Texas Panhandle this afternoon for west winds of 25 to 35 mph with gusts near 50 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Snowfall accumulations will be possible across much of the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles Sunday night through Tuesday night. Winter weather highlights may become necessary during parts of this time period. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 4:27 AM CST | Wind Advisory | AMA | Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham | 14 hr |
| Feb 16, 9:04 AM CST | Freezing Fog Advisory | AMA | Carson, Gray | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:53 PM CST | High Wind Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 4 hr |
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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.