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Red Flag Warning 17, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 18, 2025Deaf Smith County, Oldham County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 18, 2025, 3:34 AM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Oldham County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 18, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for . 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 18, 2025, 3:34 AM CDT (08:34 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 18, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Apr 18, 2025, 11:25 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Deaf Smith County, TX, Oldham County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 362 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 00:00Z on 2025-04-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 337 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2025-04-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
337 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 17, 6:18 PM CDT, 9 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 6:18 PM CDT, 9 hours 16 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 17, 2:55 PM CDT, 12 hours 39 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
255 PM CDT Thu Apr 17 2025

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255 PM CDT Thu Apr 17 2025

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma
Panhandles.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Critical fire weather conditions will continue for all of the
Panhandles through the mid evening. Additionally, the western
Panhandles will have stronger winds and therefore a High Wind
Warning remains in effect for that area.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Thunderstorms will be possible for the far southeastern
Panhandles on Friday. A storm or two could be severe with large
hail and damaging winds the primary threats.

Thunderstorms will be possible for parts of the Panhandles Tuesday
and Wednesday.  Some of these storms could become severe.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.

Area fire managers and emergency officials should be alert for
elevated or critical fire weather conditions today.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 18, 2:07 PM CDTFreeze WarningAMADallam, Hartley, Sherman15 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2025Every red flag warning in 2025

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.