Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 1, 2008, 3:16 AM CST for 14 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 1, 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
- Mar 1, 2008, 3:16 AM CST (09:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 1, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 1, 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, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 2199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 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 010917 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 316 AM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS SATURDAY AFTERNOON... .A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN EASTERN COLORADO WILL STRENGTHEN BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON...WHICH WILL BRING STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THIS COMBINATION WILL SET THE STAGE FOR FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR WILDFIRES. KSZ061>064-074>078-084>088-011730- /O.UPG.KDDC.FW.A.0001.080301T1800Z-080302T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0005.080301T1800Z-080302T0000Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD- MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- 316 AM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 /216 AM MST SAT MAR 1 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. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL TO BELOW 15 PERCENT AS SOUTHWEST WINDS INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTY BY AFTERNOON. THIS WILL PRODUCE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WITH THE POSSIBILITY 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. $$ 32
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS83 KDDC 011730 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1130 AM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON... .A STRENGTHENING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN EASTERN COLORADO WILL BRING STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THIS COMBINATION WILL SET THE STAGE FOR FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR WILDFIRES. KSZ061>064-074>078-084>088-012300- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0005.080301T1800Z-080302T0000Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD- MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- 1130 AM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 /1030 AM MST SAT MAR 1 2008/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO BELOW 15 PERCENT AS SOUTHWEST WINDS FROM 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL PRODUCE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WITH THE POSSIBILITY FOR WILDFIRES. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
000 WWUS83 KDDC 020042 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 643 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 ...CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS HAVE IMPROVED... .AS TEMPERATURES SLOWLY FALL AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES RISE THIS EVENING...AND WINDS SPEEDS SETTLED DOWN...THE RISK OF WILD FIRES HAS DIMINISHED. KSZ061>064-074>078-084>088-020200- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0005.080301T1800Z-080302T0000Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD- MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- 643 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 /543 PM MST SAT MAR 1 2008/ ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... CONDITIONS IMPROVED AND THE RISK OF WILD FIRES HAS DIMINISHED. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST. $$ 12
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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.