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Red Flag Warning 42, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at May 29, 2022, 3:38 AM CDT for 13 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at May 29, 2022, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 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 29, 2022, 3:38 AM CDT (08:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 29, 2022, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 29, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 2115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 194 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2281 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2358 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 33.4
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 29, 12:28 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 12:28 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Collingsworth | 33 min |
| May 29, 3:38 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more | 11 hr |
| May 29, 2:59 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more | 30 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.