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Red Flag Warning 18, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Dec 18, 2025, 10:14 AM CST for Hemphill County, Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Dec 18, 2025, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 7 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
- Dec 18, 2025, 10:14 AM CST (16:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 18, 2025, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 18, 2025, 5:59 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 1868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -447 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -646 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.