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Red Flag Warning 29, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 23, 202220 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 23, 2022, 3:28 AM CDT for 20 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Apr 23, 2022, 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: Apr 23, 2022, 3:28 AM CDT (08:28 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 23, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 23, 2022, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

All 23 counties

Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 2360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 364 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 18.1

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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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Apr 23, 12:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 12:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 1:01 AM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 22, 11:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 12:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 1:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 1:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 3:00 AM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 3:19 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman	41 min
Apr 22, 7:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter	36 min
Apr 22, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	43 min
Apr 22, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	46 min
Apr 22, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Roberts	61 min
Apr 22, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Randall	44 min
Apr 22, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	31 min
Apr 22, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	43 min
Apr 22, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray, Randall	62 min
Apr 22, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree	53 min
Apr 22, 9:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	20 min
Apr 22, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	56 min
Apr 22, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	37 min
Apr 23, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hansford, Sherman	54 min
Apr 23, 1:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree and 2 more	95 min
Apr 23, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford	30 min
Apr 23, 3:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Ochiltree	26 min
Apr 23, 3:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	28 min
Apr 23, 3:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	41 min
Apr 23, 3:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Ochiltree	24 min
Apr 23, 4:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Roberts	25 min
Apr 23, 4:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Roberts	27 min
Apr 23, 4:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts	8 min
Apr 23, 12:39 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 13 more	5 hr
Apr 23, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	27 min
Apr 23, 3:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	30 min

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.