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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 7, 2024, 2:45 AM CDT for 7 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Apr 7, 2024, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 2 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 7, 2024, 2:45 AM CDT (07:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 7, 2024, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2024, 12:13 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Cimarron County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:42 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 323 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 6, 6:16 PM CDT, 8 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 6:16 PM CDT, 8 hours 29 minutes before
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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.