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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 22, 20266 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 22, 2026, 12:49 AM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 22, 2026, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 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 22, 2026, 12:49 AM CDT (05:49 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 22, 2026, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 22, 2026, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX

Counties Eastland County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 372 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 2026-03-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2026-03-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
5999 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.