Alert archive / Missouri / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this red flag warning at Oct 21, 2007, 3:45 AM CDT for 15 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Oct 21, 2007, 1:00 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 21, 2007, 3:45 AM CDT (08:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 21, 2007, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 21, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Crawford County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Maries County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Washington County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 2535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 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 210845 RFWSGF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 345 AM CDT SUN OCT 21 2007 ...STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE WITH LOW AFTERNOON HUMIDITIES TO CREATE RED FLAG CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON... A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH EASTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE INTO THE AREA THIS EVENING. AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. MOZ058-070>073-081>084-092-096-097-099-104-105-211645- /O.NEW.KSGF.FW.W.0003.071021T1800Z-071022T0000Z/ MARIES-PULASKI-PHELPS-CRAWFORD-WASHINGTON-LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-IRON- WRIGHT-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-REYNOLDS-TANEY-OZARK- 345 AM CDT SUN OCT 21 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH THIS AFTERNOON WILL COMBINE WITH WARM TEMPERATURES AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OVER AN AREA THAT HAS EXPERIENCED A PROLONGED DROUGHT THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS. DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI THROUGH 7 PM THIS EVENING. 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. $$ CLAYCOMB
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS83 KSGF 220011 RFWSGF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 711 PM CDT SUN OCT 21 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE EASTERN OZARKS HAS EXPIRED... .DUE TO DECREASING WIND SPEEDS ALONG WITH INCREASING RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES THIS EVENING...THE POTENTIAL FOR WILDFIRE BEHAVIOR IS DECREASING. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. MOZ058-070>073-081>084-092-096-097-099-104-105-220115- /O.EXP.KSGF.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-071022T0000Z/ MARIES-PULASKI-PHELPS-CRAWFORD-WASHINGTON-LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-IRON- WRIGHT-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-REYNOLDS-TANEY-OZARK- 711 PM CDT SUN OCT 21 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. THE RED FLAG WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN OZARKS HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVING AND WILDFIRE BEHAVIOR IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH THE REST OF THE NIGHT. WIND SPEEDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE WHILE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE VALUES INCREASES. $$ CRAMER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 1:45 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | SGF | Barry, Barton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence and 4 more | 9 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.