Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Oct 30, 2007, 3:22 AM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 30, 2007, 12:56 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 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
- Oct 30, 2007, 3:22 AM CDT (08:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 30, 2007, 12:56 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 30, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:20 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 2953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS83 KDDC 300822 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 322 AM CDT TUE OCT 30 2007 ...WILDFIRES ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... .AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT TIGHTENS ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS THE WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTY BY AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL TO LESS THAN 15 PERCENT AND WILL CREATE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR WILDFIRES. KSZ063-075>077-084>087-301900- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0002.071030T1800Z-071031T0000Z/ FINNEY-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- 322 AM CDT TUE OCT 30 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP TO NEAR 15 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES RISE TO THE LOWER 80S. SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTY BY AFTERNOON. ALL OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED. 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. $$ 06
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS83 KDDC 301756 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1256 PM CDT TUE OCT 30 2007 ...WILDFIRES ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... .SOUTHERLY WINDS GUSTING TO 25 MPH AT TIMES ALONG WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES FALLING TO AROUND 10 TO 15 PERCENT WILL CREATE EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR CONDITIONS. KSZ043-044-062-074-310000- /O.EXA.KDDC.FW.W.0002.071030T1800Z-071031T0000Z/ SCOTT-LANE-KEARNY-STANTON- 1256 PM CDT TUE OCT 30 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL DROP TO AROUND 10 TO 15 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON AS HIGH TEMPERATURES TOP OUT IN THE LOWER 80S. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BE GUSTY TO 25 MPH. ALL OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ KSZ063-075>077-084>087-310000- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0002.071030T1800Z-071031T0000Z/ FINNEY-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- 1256 PM CDT TUE OCT 30 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP TO AROUND 10 TO 15 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES RISE TO THE LOWER 80S. SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTY BY AFTERNOON. ALL OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED. 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. $$ GERARD
000 WWUS83 KDDC 302359 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 659 PM CDT TUE OCT 30 2007 ...WILDFIRE DANGER WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THIS EVENING... .SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE STARTED TO DECREASE ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. IN ADDITION...RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BE GOING DOWN AS TEMPERATURES FALL AFTER SUNSET. THE DANGER FROM WILDFIRES WILL NO LONGER BE AS EXTREME. KSZ043-044-062-063-074>077-084>087-310100- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-071031T0000Z/ SCOTT-LANE-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-MORTON- STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- 659 PM CDT TUE OCT 30 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THIS EVENING WITH SUSTAINED SPEEDS NO LONGER ABOVE 25 MPH. TEMPERATURES DROPPING THIS EVENING WILL ALLOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO CLIMB ABOVE 15 PERCENT. $$ RITTERLING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 12:54 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 25 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.