Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Jan 27, 2008, 3:18 PM CST for 10 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 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
- Jan 27, 2008, 3:18 PM CST (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 2008, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 3218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 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 KDDC 272118 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 318 PM CST SUN JAN 27 2008 ...FIRE DANGER IS EXTREME THIS AFTERNOON... .SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 15 TO 25 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS FROM 25 TO 35 MPH AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE INCREASED RISK FOR WILDFIRES THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ074>078-084>088-280100- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0001.080127T2118Z-080128T0100Z/ STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- 318 PM CST SUN JAN 27 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO 15 PERCENT OR LESS THIS AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED SOUTHWEST WINDS FROM 15 TO 25 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS FROM 25 TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS83 KDDC 280055 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 655 PM CST SUN JAN 27 2008 ...THE RISK OF WILD FIRES IS DIMINISHING... .AS LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FLOWS NORTH INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS SUBSIDE INTO THE 15 TO 20 MPH RANGE... CONDITIONS WILL BECOME LESS FAVORABLE FOR FIRES AND SPREADING FIRES. KSZ074>078-084>088-280200- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-080128T0100Z/ STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- 655 PM CST SUN JAN 27 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE RISEN AND WINDS SUBSIDED...THUS THE THREAT OF WILD FIRES IS DIMINISHED. $$ 12
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 1:34 PM CST | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 19 more | 28 hr |
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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.