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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS San Angelo, TX

February 23, 201917 counties in Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 23, 2019, 3:33 AM CST for 17 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 23, 2019, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 7 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Feb 23, 2019, 3:33 AM CST (09:33 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 23, 2019, 11:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 23, 2019, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX

Counties Coke County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Mason County, TX, Menard County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 23, 2:40 PM CST	DUST STORM	Rochester, TX	VIDEO ON FACEBOOK OF BELOW 1/4 MILE VISIBILITY IN ROCHESTER TX DUE TO BLOWING DUST ON SATURDAY 2/23. NEAREST OBSERVING STATION SHOWED A MAX WIND GUST OF 53 MILES PER HOUR FROM HASKELL WEST TEXAS MESONET STATION.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 253 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: 1529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Feb 22, 5:40 PM CST, 9 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 5:40 PM CST, 9 hours 53 minutes before

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.