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Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 26, 202214 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 26, 2022, 3:21 AM CDT for 14 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 26, 2022, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 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 26, 2022, 3:21 AM CDT (08:21 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 26, 2022, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 26, 2022, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX

Counties Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hood County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Somervell County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:22 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 383 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2022-03-26Temperature 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2022-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
5387 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 2:17 PM CDTRed Flag WarningFWDBell, Bosque, Comanche, Coryell, Eastland, Erath and 15 more30 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 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.