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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 5, 2024, 5:13 AM CDT for 24 counties in Texas; 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 6, 2024, 11:00 AM 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
- Apr 5, 2024, 5:13 AM CDT (10:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 6, 2024, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2024, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
All 29 counties
Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:10 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 4716 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Apr 5, 4:17 AM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 4:17 AM CDT, 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 3:00 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Culberson | 47 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:00 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Culberson, Dawson, Ector and 13 more | 40 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2024Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2024Every red flag warning in 2024
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.