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Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Amarillo, TX

February 27, 20235 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 27, 2023, 3:35 AM CST for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 27, 2023, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 8 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: Feb 27, 2023, 3:35 AM CST (09:35 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 27, 2023, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Feb 27, 2023, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Armstrong County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:33 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 35 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: 2405 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 97 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -69 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 Feb 26, 10:53 PM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 10:53 PM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 26, 1:25 PM CST, 14 hours 10 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
125 PM CST Sun Feb 26 2023

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-271000-
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-
125 PM CST Sun Feb 26 2023

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

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight.

Critical fire weather conditions are expected this afternoon in
the western Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles.

Strong winds are expected in the western Panhandles this afternoon
before spreading across the entirety of the Panhandles late this
afternoon into tonight. A High Wind Warning is in effect for the
Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles, save the eastern third of the
Oklahoma Panhandle, where a Wind Advisory is in effect.

The strong winds may generate blowing dust, leading to visibility
below 1 mile at times. A Blowing Dust Advisory is in effect for
the entire area, save the eastern third of the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Severe thunderstorms will be possible in the eastern Oklahoma and
Texas Panhandles this afternoon through this evening. Damaging
wind gusts to 80 mph will be the primary hazard with any severe
thunderstorms, with large hail and perhaps a tornado possible as
well.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

Elevated to critical fire weather conditions may exist across
portions of the combined panhandles Monday through Wednesday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will be needed this afternoon and evening
between 3 PM and 9 PM.

Area fire managers and emergency officials should be alert for
elevated to critical fire weather conditions every afternoon from
today through Wednesday.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 27, 12:29 AM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 27, 1:18 AM CST, 2 hours 17 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
Feb 26, 6:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	49 min
Feb 26, 6:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	26 min
Feb 26, 6:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	24 min
Feb 27, 3:35 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 13 more	11 hr
Feb 27, 2:42 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more	29 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2023 Every red flag warning in 2023

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.