Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 6, 2008, 12:08 PM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 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 6, 2008, 12:08 PM CDT (17:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2008, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 2295 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 446 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 061708 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1208 PM CDT SUN APR 6 2008 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS DEVELOPING TODAY... .DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS ARE PRESENT ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN KANSAS. THIS HAS LED TO FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR WILDFIRES TODAY. KSZ030-043>045-062>064-077-078-062200- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0008.080406T1708Z-080406T2200Z/ TREGO-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-GRAY-FORD- 1208 PM CDT SUN APR 6 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO AROUND 10 TO 15 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON. THE COMBINATION OF THESE LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY NORTH WINDS FROM 25 TO 30 MPH HAVE LED TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS83 KDDC 062203 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 503 PM CDT SUN APR 6 2008 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS DIMINISHING... .WINDS HAVE STARTED TO DECREASE ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS...AND WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THROUGH THE REST OF THE EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ARE STILL LOW...BUT SHOULD INCREASE AFTER SUNSET AS THE TEMPERATURE DROPS. WILDFIRES WILL BE LESS OF A THREAT. KSZ030-043>045-062>064-077-078-062315- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-080406T2200Z/ TREGO-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-GRAY-FORD- 503 PM CDT SUN APR 6 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. NORTH WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO THE 15 TO 20 MPH RANGE AND WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THROUGH THE EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF 10 TO 15 PERCENT WILL INCREASE AFTER 7 PM. $$ 26
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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.