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Red Flag Warning 15, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 15, 2024, 11:09 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Apr 16, 2024, 1:00 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 15, 2024, 11:09 PM CDT (04:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 1902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
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.