Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 5, 2008, 2:02 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 5, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Apr 5, 2008, 2:02 AM CDT (07:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 5, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Grant County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:01 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 2903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 050702 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 202 AM CDT SAT APR 5 2008 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS SATURDAY... .SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP IN EASTERN COLORADO ON TODAY. DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS WILL LEAD TO FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR WILDFIRES. KSZ043-044-061>063-077-087-050815- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.A.0003.080405T1300Z-080406T0200Z/ SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-GRAY-MEADE- 202 AM CDT SAT APR 5 2008 /102 AM MDT SAT APR 5 2008/ ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH. WINDSPEEDS ARE EXPECTED TO STAY BELOW 25 MPH ACROSS SCOTT...LANE... KEARNY AND HAMILTON COUNTIES. HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO BE BETWEEN 20 AND 30 PERCENT ACROSS FINNEY...MEADE AND GRAY COUNTIES. THUS THE RED FLAG WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THESE COUNTIES. $$ KSZ074>076-084>086-051515- /O.UPG.KDDC.FW.A.0003.080405T1300Z-080406T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0007.080405T1800Z-080406T0100Z/ STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD- 202 AM CDT SAT APR 5 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FROM 10 TO 15 PERCENT ALONG WITH GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 25 TO 35 MPH WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS83 KDDC 051435 AAA RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 935 AM CDT SAT APR 5 2008 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY... .SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP IN EASTERN COLORADO TODAY. IT WILL BE DRY AND WINDY ACROSS THE AREA. THIS WILL LEAD TO FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR WILDFIRES. KSZ074>076-084>086-052300- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0007.080405T1800Z-080406T0100Z/ STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD- 935 AM CDT SAT APR 5 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FROM 10 TO 15 PERCENT ALONG WITH GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 25 TO 35 MPH WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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. $$
000 WWUS83 KDDC 052226 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 526 PM CDT SAT APR 5 2008 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS CONTINUE... .A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE OVER EASTERN COLORADO WILL PERSIST. IT WILL BE DRY AND WINDY ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. THIS WILL LEAD TO FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR WILDFIRES. KSZ074>076-084>086-060100- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0007.000000T0000Z-080406T0100Z/ STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD- 526 PM CDT SAT APR 5 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FROM 10 TO 15 PERCENT ALONG WITH GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 25 TO 30 MPH WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ 12
000 WWUS83 KDDC 060056 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 756 PM CDT SAT APR 5 2008 ...THE FIRE DANGER IS DECREASING... .AS EVENING TRANSITIONS INTO NIGHT...WIND SPEEDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES INCREASE. KSZ074>076-084>086-060200- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0007.000000T0000Z-080406T0100Z/ STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD- 756 PM CDT SAT APR 5 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVING AND THUS THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AS SCHEDULED. $$ 12
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 9:55 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 16 more | 21 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.