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Red Flag Warning 20, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 7, 202411 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at May 7, 2024, 3:35 AM CDT for 11 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at May 7, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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
May 7, 2024, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
In effect from
May 7, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
May 7, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 422 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2024-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3547 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2024-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 337 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3547 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
337 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
387 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
8.3
Supercell composite
27.3

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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.