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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS North Platte, NE

June 7, 200618 counties in Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this red flag warning at Jun 7, 2006, 2:55 PM MDT for 18 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Jun 8, 2006, 10:00 AM MDT. 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: Jun 7, 2006, 2:55 PM MDT (20:55 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 8, 2006, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired: Jun 8, 2006, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE

Counties Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 2813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS83 KLBF 072055
RFWLBF

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
355 PM CDT WED JUN 7 2006



.SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL SET UP OVER THE WESTERN SANDHILLS ON
THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THIS WILL LEAD TO WESTERLY WINDS INTO THE
EASTERN PANHANDLE...WESTERN SANDHILLS AND SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...BRINGING IN DRY AIR AND DROPPING RELATIVE HUMIDITY
LEVELS INTO THE LOWER TEENS. THIS COMBINED WITH TEMPERATURES
IN THE UPPER 90S TO 104 DEGREES...CURING FUELS AND POSSIBLE LOW
PRECIPITATION THUNDERSTORMS WILL LEAD TO A CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER
DAY WITH FIRES CAPABLE OF REACHING EXTEMEME LEVELS. 

NEZ204-206-210-081200-
/O.NEW.KLBF.FW.W.0002.060608T1600Z-060609T0200Z/
EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR-
SANDHILLS/VALENTINE NWR/NEBRASKA NATIONAL FOREST/
SAMUEL R MCKELVIE NATIONAL FOREST-FRENCHMAN BASIN-
355 PM CDT WED JUN 7 2006 /255 PM MDT WED JUN 7 2006/

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM CDT /10 AM MDT/ TO 9 PM
CDT /8 PM MDT/ THURSDAY FOR EXTREME TEMPERATURES AND LOW HUMIDITIES...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A RED
FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM CDT /10 AM MDT/ TO
9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/ THURSDAY. 

HIGH TEMPERATURES ON THURSDAY ARE EXPECTED TO REACH INTO THE UPPER
90S TO 104 DEGREES ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE EASTERN
PANHANDLE...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRAKSA. WINDS MAY
OCCASIONALLY GUST NEAR 25 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON AND THUNDERSTORMS
THAT INITIATE MAY CONTAIN LITTLE RAINFALL. FUELS ARE CURED OR
CURING ACROSS THIS AREA AND WHEN COMBINED WITH THESE WEATHER
CONDITIONS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR MAY BE EXHIBITED. 

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF
STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL
CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

$$

13

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS83 KLBF 080927
RFWLBF

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
427 AM CDT THU JUN 8 2006

.SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL SET UP OVER THE WESTERN SANDHILLS THIS
AFTERNOON. THIS WILL LEAD TO WEST TO SOUTHWEST WIND INTO THE
EASTERN PANHANDLE...WESTERN SANDHILLS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...
BRINGING IN DRY AIR AND DROPPING RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS INTO THE
LOWER TEENS. THIS COMBINED WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 90S TO
104 DEGREES...CURING GRASSES AND LOW PRECIPITATION THUNDERSTORMS
WILL LEAD TO A CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER DAY AND CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME
FIRE BEHAVIOR.

NEZ204-206-210-081730-
/O.CON.KLBF.FW.W.0002.060608T1600Z-060609T0200Z/
EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR-
SANDHILLS/VALENTINE NWR/NEBRASKA NATIONAL FOREST/
SAMUEL R MCKELVIE NATIONAL FOREST-FRENCHMAN BASIN-
427 AM CDT THU JUN 8 2006 /327 AM MDT THU JUN 8 2006/

...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM CDT /10 AM MDT/
THIS MORNING TO 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING...

HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY ARE EXPECTED TO REACH INTO THE UPPER 90S
TO 104 DEGREES ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE...
SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. WIND MAY OCCASIONALLY GUST
NEAR 25 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN LITTLE
RAINFALL INITIALLY. FUELS ARE CURED OR CURING ACROSS THIS AREA AND
WHEN COMBINED WITH THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS...EXTREME FIRE
BEHAVIOR MAY BE EXHIBITED. THE MOST EXTREME CONDITIONS ARE
EXPECTED TO BE SOUTH OF STATE HIGHWAY 92 AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 83.

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF
STRONG WIND...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL
CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

$$
SPRINGER

000 
WWUS83 KLBF 082000
RFWLBF

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
300 PM CDT THU JUN 8 2006

.HOT TEMPERATURES AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CONTINUE INTO
THE EVENING HOURS.

NEZ206-082100-
/O.CAN.KLBF.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060609T0200Z/
SANDHILLS/VALENTINE NWR/NEBRASKA NATIONAL FOREST/
SAMUEL R MCKELVIE NATIONAL FOREST-
300 PM CDT THU JUN 8 2006

...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS CANCELLED THE
RED FLAG WARNING. 

ALTHOUGH RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED ACROSS THE
SANDHILLS...VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE
EVENING. 

$$

NEZ204-210-090200-
/O.CON.KLBF.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060609T0200Z/
EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR-FRENCHMAN BASIN-
300 PM CDT THU JUN 8 2006 /200 PM MDT THU JUN 8 2006/

...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/
THIS EVENING...

A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/
THIS EVENING. 

RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BELOW 15 PERCENT ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING...MAINLY SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM CRESCENT LAKE
TO NORTH PLATTE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA THROUGH 9 PM CDT
(8 PM MDT).

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF
STRONG WIND...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL
CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

$$

JMC

000 
WWUS83 KLBF 090220
RFWLBF

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
920 PM CDT THU JUN 8 2006


NEZ204-210-090330-
/O.EXP.KLBF.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060609T0200Z/
EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR-FRENCHMAN BASIN-
920 PM CDT THU JUN 8 2006 /820 PM MDT THU JUN 8 2006/

...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED...

THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

$$

MASEK

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 2:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	37 min
Jun 7, 2:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	64 min
Jun 7, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	32 min
Jun 7, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	47 min
Jun 7, 3:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	45 min
Jun 7, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Thomas	52 min
Jun 7, 5:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine	52 min
Jun 7, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	47 min
Jun 7, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan	46 min

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Nebraska, 2006 Every red flag warning in 2006

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.