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Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 4, 202220 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 4, 2022, 2:07 PM CST for 20 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Mar 5, 2022, 10:00 AM CST. 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: Mar 4, 2022, 2:07 PM CST (20:07 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 5, 2022, 10:00 AM CST
Expired: Mar 5, 2022, 7:00 PM CST
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 20:07 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1757 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, 20 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 5:28 PM CST, 20 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 2:51 PM CST, 23 hours 16 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
251 PM CST Thu Mar 3 2022

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-041200-
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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 4, 4:10 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more	10 hr
Mar 4, 4:10 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	AMA	Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham, Sherman	15 hr

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.