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Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 20, 2023, 3:23 AM CDT for Bailey County, Castro County, Parmer County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 20, 2023, 3:00 PM CDT. 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
- Apr 20, 2023, 3:23 AM CDT (08:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 20, 2023, 3:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2023, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Parmer County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:26 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 273 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.