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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Jan 30, 2008, 11:16 AM CST for Barber County, Comanche County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 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 30, 2008, 11:16 AM CST (17:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2008, 2:18 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Pratt County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 2392 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 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 301716 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1116 AM CST WED JAN 30 2008 ...GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES THIS AFTERNOON WILL RESULT IN A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR WILDFIRES... .RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL TO AROUND 15 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON AS DEWPOINT REMAINS IN THE SINGLE DIGITS AND TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE 50S. THIS COMBINED WITH GUSTY SOUTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL RESULT IN FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR WILDFIRES. KSZ081-089-090-310000- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0003.080130T1716Z-080131T0000Z/ PRATT-COMANCHE-BARBER- 1116 AM CST WED JAN 30 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTH WINDS AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS THE HUMIDITY WILL FALL TO AROUND 15 PERCENT. THIS...COMBINED WITH THE GUSTY WINDS WILL CAUSE AN INCREASED THREAT FOR WILDFIRES. WINDS WILL DECREASE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL INCREASE AS SUNSET APPROACHES. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS83 KDDC 302018 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 218 PM CST WED JAN 30 2008 ...DIMINISHING WINDS AND HIGHER RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BRING A REDUCED FIRE THREAT... .SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE DECREASED AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE STARTED TO GO BACK UP. THUS...THE WILDFIRE THREAT HAS DECREASED AND THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. KSZ081-089-090-302130- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080131T0000Z/ PRATT-COMANCHE-BARBER- 218 PM CST WED JAN 30 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. WINDS WILL CONTINUE AT 15 TO 25 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH THROUGH 4 PM CST...THEN DECREASE INTO THE 10 TO 15 MPH RANGE. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL STAY AROUND 20 TO 25 PERCENT. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 4:03 AM CST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 8 more | 31 hr |
| Jan 30, 11:16 AM CST | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Pratt | 3 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.