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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 2, 202520 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 2, 2025, 8:55 PM CST for 20 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Mar 3, 2025, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 13 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: Mar 2, 2025, 8:55 PM CST (02:55 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 3, 2025, 11:00 AM CST
Expired: Mar 4, 2025, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

All 23 counties

Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Mar 2, 4:26 PM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 4:26 PM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 9:59 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Donley, Gray and 12 more	10 hr
Mar 3, 1:54 AM CST	High Wind Warning	AMA	Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter and 2 more	18 hr
Mar 3, 4:26 AM CST	Wind Advisory	AMA	Moore, Potter, Randall, Sherman	11 hr
Mar 3, 3:29 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 5 more	12 hr
Mar 3, 3:44 PM CST	Blowing Dust Advisory	AMA	Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter and 2 more	4 hr
Mar 3, 3:44 PM CST	High Wind Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more	28 hr

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.