Alert archive / Nebraska / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 5, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this red flag warning at Sep 12, 2007, 3:44 AM MDT for 7 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Sep 12, 2007, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Sep 12, 2007, 3:44 AM MDT (09:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 12, 2007, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2007, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Arthur County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Keith County, NE, Sheridan County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:42 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 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 2826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 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 KLBF 120944 RFWLBF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 444 AM CDT WED SEP 12 2007 NEZ204-121745- /O.NEW.KLBF.FW.W.0005.070912T1700Z-070912T2300Z/ EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR- 344 AM MDT WED SEP 12 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. WEST AND SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 15 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 25 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL FALL BELOW 15 PERCENT. WILDFIRES WILL BE VERY HARD TO CONTROL THIS AFTERNOON. PERHAPS HEIGHTENING THE FIRE DANGER...A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH LATE TONIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT. 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. $$ CDC
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS83 KLBF 121801 RFWLBF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 101 PM CDT WED SEP 12 2007 NEZ204-130000- /O.EXT.KLBF.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070913T0000Z/ EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR- 1201 PM MDT WED SEP 12 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEBRASKA. WEST AND SOUTHWEST WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO 15 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 25 MPH EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITY HAS FALLEN OR IS EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW 15 PERCENT. WILDFIRES WILL BE VERY HARD TO CONTROL THIS AFTERNOON. PERHAPS HEIGHTENING THE FIRE DANGER...A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH LATE TONIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ MASEK
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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.