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Red Flag Warning 33, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 2, 20224 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at May 2, 2022, 3:14 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 2, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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: May 2, 2022, 3:14 AM CDT (08:14 UTC)
In effect from: May 2, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 2, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Armstrong County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 632 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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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 May 2, 12:57 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 12:57 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 11:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 1, 10:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 1, 11:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 1:14 AM CDT, 2 hours before

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Local storm report, May 2, 1:16 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 1:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 1:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 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
May 1, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	59 min
May 1, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	68 min
May 1, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman	59 min
May 1, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter, Randall	60 min
May 1, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	56 min
May 1, 7:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson	3 hr
May 1, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	67 min
May 1, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Moore, Roberts	64 min
May 1, 8:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray	53 min
May 1, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	46 min
May 1, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter	66 min
May 1, 9:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter	48 min
May 1, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Moore, Potter	60 min
May 1, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley	24 min
May 1, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman	49 min
May 1, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong	31 min
May 1, 9:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Roberts	30 min
May 1, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	55 min
May 1, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts	34 min
May 1, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Potter	28 min
May 1, 10:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson	52 min
May 1, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	15 min
May 1, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	13 min
May 1, 10:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill	57 min
May 1, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	60 min
May 1, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore	38 min
May 1, 11:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Moore	31 min
May 2, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman	59 min
May 2, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	47 min
May 2, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson, Roberts	52 min
May 2, 1:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	29 min
May 2, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson, Roberts	32 min
May 2, 1:23 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	AMA	Carson, Deaf Smith, Gray, Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson and 6 more	17 hr
May 2, 1:23 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman	17 hr
May 1, 10:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	44 min
May 1, 10:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	50 min

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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.