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Red Flag Warning 15, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 11, 2021, 3:15 AM CDT for Culberson County, Texas; 4 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 11, 2021, 1:00 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
- Apr 11, 2021, 3:15 AM CDT (08:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 11, 2021, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2021, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Culberson County, TX
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:21 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 5252 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
154 WWUS84 KMAF 110815 RFWMAF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 315 AM CDT Sun Apr 11 2021 NMZ117-118-TXZ272-273-110915- /O.CAN.KMAF.FW.A.0014.210411T1800Z-210412T0300Z/ Chavez Plains-Eddy Plains-Van Horn and Highway 54 Corridor- Eastern Culberson County- 315 AM CDT Sun Apr 11 2021 /215 AM MDT Sun Apr 11 2021/ ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR THE CHAVES AND EDDY COUNTY PLAINS, VAN HORN AND THE HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR, AND EASTERN CULBERSON COUNTY... The National Weather Service in Midland/Odessa has cancelled the Fire Weather Watch. Critical fire weather conditions are not expected to develop across these areas this afternoon, thus the Watch has been cancelled. $$ NMZ116-TXZ270-271-120300- /O.UPG.KMAF.FW.A.0014.210411T1800Z-210412T0300Z/ /O.NEW.KMAF.FW.W.0015.210411T1800Z-210412T0300Z/ Sacramento Foothills and Guadalupe Mountains- Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet- Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains- 215 AM MDT Sun Apr 11 2021 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR WARM, DRY, AND WINDY CONDITIONS AND VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER FOR THE SACRAMENTO FOOTHILLS AND GUADALUPE AND DELAWARE MOUNTAINS... The National Weather Service in Midland/Odessa has issued a Red Flag Warning for warm, dry, and windy conditions and very high fire danger, which is in effect from noon today to 9 PM MDT this evening. The Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect. * AFFECTED AREA...Sacramento Foothills and Guadalupe Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet and Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains. * TIMING...This afternoon through this evening. * WINDS...West 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 5 percent. * RFTI...6 to 8 or critical to extreme. * IMPACTS...Avoid the use of open flames or any activities that may generate sparks. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity and warm temperatures will increase potential for fire growth. && $$
1 follow-up statement
163 WWUS84 KMAF 120319 RFWMAF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 1019 PM CDT Sun Apr 11 2021 NMZ116-TXZ270-271-120430- /O.EXP.KMAF.FW.W.0015.000000T0000Z-210412T0300Z/ Sacramento Foothills and Guadalupe Mountains- Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet- Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains- 919 PM MDT Sun Apr 11 2021 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR THE SACRAMENTO FOOTHILLS AND GUADALUPE AND DELAWARE MOUNTAINS... Conditions continue to improved across the area as winds decrease and RH's slowly rise. $$
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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.