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Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 4, 20225 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 4, 2022, 4:10 AM CST for 5 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Mar 4, 2022, 12:00 PM CST. 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
Mar 4, 2022, 4:10 AM CST (10:10 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 4, 2022, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Mar 4, 2022, 7:00 PM CST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:11 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 289 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2022-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2022-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
4405 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
139 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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Mar 3, 5:28 PM CST, 10 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 5:28 PM CST, 10 hours 42 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 2:51 PM CST, 13 hours 19 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
251 PM CST Thu Mar 3 2022

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Cimarron-Texas-Beaver-Dallam-Sherman-Hansford-Ochiltree-Lipscomb-
Hartley-Moore-Hutchinson-Roberts-Hemphill-Oldham-Potter-Carson-
Gray-Wheeler-Deaf Smith-Randall-Armstrong-Donley-Collingsworth-
Palo Duro Canyon-
251 PM CST Thu Mar 3 2022

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma
Panhandles.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight.

Critical fire weather conditions are expected across the western
and central Oklahoma Panhandle and the far northwest Texas
Panhandle where a Red Flag Warning is in effect through early
this evening. Elevated fire weather conditions are expected across
much of the rest of the area through early this evening. South to
southwest winds of 15 to 20 mph with some higher gusts will be
found especially in the northwest along with minimum relative
humidity values between 5 and 10 percent.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Critical fire weather conditions are possible across the western
and central Oklahoma Panhandle and the western Texas Panhandle on
Friday. Critical fire weather conditions are possible across all
of the Panhandles on Saturday. Windy conditions along with low
relative humidity values will be found across the north and west
on Friday and across the entire area on Saturday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.

Area fire managers and emergency officials should be alert for
elevated or critical fire weather conditions this evening through
Saturday.

Schneider

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 4, 4:10 AM CSTFire Weather WatchAMAArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more10 hr
Mar 4, 2:07 PM CSTRed Flag WarningAMAArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more29 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2022Red Flag Warnings in Oklahoma, 2022Every red flag warning in 2022

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.