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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this red flag warning at Aug 20, 2023, 1:43 PM CDT for 37 counties in Texas. It took effect at Aug 21, 2023, 10:00 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
- Aug 20, 2023, 1:43 PM CDT (18:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 21, 2023, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2023, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
All 37 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Aug 20, 1:42 PM CDT, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 1:42 PM CDT, 1 minute before
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The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.