Alert archive / Missouri / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this red flag warning at Feb 23, 2007, 11:57 AM CST for 14 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. 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
- Feb 23, 2007, 11:57 AM CST (17:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2007, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 2533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 378 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 KSGF 231757 RFWSGF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1157 AM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...DANGEROUS BURNING CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY EVENING... .SUSTAINED SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. SURFACE DEW POINTS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO RECOVER TODAY AND AS A RESULT THE HUMIDITIES HAVE DIPPED INTO THE LOWER 20S. DANGEROUS BURNING CONDITIONS HAVE DEVELOPED AS A RESULTS AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING WHEN HUMIDITIES SHOULD BEGIN TO RISE. KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055-066>068-077>079-088>090-093-094-101-102- 240200- /O.NEW.KSGF.FW.W.0002.070223T1800Z-070224T0200Z/ BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-VERNON-ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-BARTON- CEDAR-POLK-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-NEWTON-LAWRENCE-MCDONALD-BARRY- 1157 AM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING. HUMIDITIES WILL BE IN THE 15 TO 25 PERCENT RANGE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AND WILL COMBINE WITH STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH TO PRODUCE DANGEROUS BURNING CONDITIONS. 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. DISPATCHERS PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. $$ LINDENBERG
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS83 KSGF 240150 RFWSGF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 750 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM CST THIS EVENING... KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055-066>068-077>079-088>090-093-094-101-102- 240300- /O.EXP.KSGF.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070224T0200Z/ BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-VERNON-ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-BARTON- CEDAR-POLK-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-NEWTON-LAWRENCE-MCDONALD-BARRY- 750 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CST THIS EVENING. TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE WARNED AREA HAVE DROPPED INTO THE 50S WHILE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES CLIMB INTO THE UPPER 20 PERCENT RANGE. WITH TEMPERATURES FALLING AND HUMIDITIES RECOVERING THIS EVENING...EXTREME FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS HAVE CEASED. THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE INCREASED FIRE WEATHER THREAT THIS EVENING AS SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH WINDS ARE FORECAST TO REMAIN STRONG THROUGH THE NIGHT. ELEVATED FIRE DANGER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING AS THESE STRONG WINDS COULD QUICKLY FAN AND SPREAD ANY FIRES CREATED. $$ CLAYCOMB
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Missouri, 2007Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2007Every red flag warning in 2007
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.