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Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 4, 2026Dallam County, Texas; Cimarron County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 4, 2026, 12:35 PM CST for Dallam County, Texas; Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Mar 5, 2026, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 8 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 4, 2026, 12:35 PM CST (18:35 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 5, 2026, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Mar 5, 2026, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 4, 5:03 AM CST, 7 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 5:03 AM CST, 7 hours 32 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 3, 11:28 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	32 min
Mar 3, 11:42 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	48 min
Mar 3, 11:58 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	47 min
Mar 4, 12:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	31 min
Mar 4, 12:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Potter, Randall	41 min
Mar 4, 12:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	45 min
Mar 4, 12:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter	36 min
Mar 4, 12:35 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more	35 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2026 Red Flag Warnings in Oklahoma, 2026 Every red flag warning in 2026

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.