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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS San Angelo, TX

February 21, 202319 counties in Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 21, 2023, 3:32 PM CST for 19 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 22, 2023, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 7 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 21, 2023, 3:32 PM CST (21:32 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 22, 2023, 11:00 AM CST
Expired
Feb 22, 2023, 6:00 PM CST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX

Counties Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2023-02-21Temperature 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2023-02-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -131 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2125 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 21, 7:03 AM CSTFire Weather WatchSJTCoke, Concho, Crockett, Fisher, Haskell, Irion and 10 more8 hr
Feb 21, 3:39 PM CSTWind AdvisorySJTCoke, Crockett, Fisher, Haskell, Irion, Jones and 5 more27 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2023Every 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.