Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Jan 28, 2008, 4:08 AM CST for 18 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jan 28, 2008, 12:00 PM CST. 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
- Jan 28, 2008, 4:08 AM CST (10:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 28, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 28, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 4290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 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 281008 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 408 AM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY THIS AFTERNOON WILL RESULT IN A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR WILDFIRES... .STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL OCCUR TODAY. TEMPERATURES WILL WARM TO THE UPPER 60S TO AROUND 70 WHICH WILL RESULT IN THE HUMIDITY FALLING TO AROUND 15 PERCENT OR LESS. CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE TOWARD SUNSET AS TEMPERATURES START TO FALL AND WINDS DECREASE. KSZ030-043>045-061>064-074>078-084>088-281800- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0002.080128T1800Z-080129T0000Z/ TREGO-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-STANTON- GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- 408 AM CST MON JAN 28 2008 /308 AM MST MON JAN 28 2008/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON CST /11 AM MST/ TODAY TO 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON CST /11 AM MST/ TODAY TO 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH TODAY. BY THIS AFTERNOON...THE HUMIDITY IS EXPECTED TO FALL TO AROUND 15 PERCENT OR LESS. THIS...COMBINED WITH THE STRONG WINDS... WILL CAUSE AN INCREASED THREAT FOR WILDFIRES. 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. $$ GERARD
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS83 KDDC 281723 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1123 AM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY THIS AFTERNOON WILL RESULT IN A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR WILDFIRES... .STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL WARM TO THE UPPER 60S TO AROUND 70 WHICH WILL RESULT IN THE HUMIDITY FALLING TO AROUND 15 PERCENT OR LESS. CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE TOWARD SUNSET AS TEMPERATURES START TO FALL AND WINDS DECREASE. KSZ030-043>045-061>064-074>078-084>088-290000- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0002.080128T1800Z-080129T0000Z/ TREGO-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-STANTON- GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- 1123 AM CST MON JAN 28 2008 /1023 AM MST MON JAN 28 2008/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE AT 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS THE HUMIDITY WILL FALL TO AROUND 15 PERCENT OR LESS. THIS...COMBINED WITH THE STRONG WINDS... WILL CAUSE AN INCREASED THREAT FOR WILDFIRES. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ BURGERT
000 WWUS83 KDDC 290003 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 603 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 KSZ030-043>045-061>064-074>078-084>088-290115- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080129T0000Z/ TREGO-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-STANTON- GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- 603 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 /503 PM MST MON JAN 28 2008/ ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CONTINUE TO RISE AND WINDS WILL DIMINISH THIS EVENING...THUS THE THREAT OF WILD FIRES HAS DIMINISHED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 2:13 PM CST | High Wind Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Meade, Seward, Stevens | 4 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.