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Red Flag Warning 14, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 28, 2008, 7:39 AM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado; Greeley County, Wallace County, Wichita County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 28, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT. 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
- Apr 28, 2008, 7:39 AM MDT (13:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 28, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2008, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:41 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 3579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 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 KGLD 281339 RFWGLD RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 739 AM MDT MON APR 28 2008 COZ253-254-KSZ027-041-042-290000- /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.W.0014.080428T1800Z-080429T0000Z/ KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-WALLACE-GREELEY-WICHITA- 739 AM MDT MON APR 28 2008 /839 AM CDT MON APR 28 2008/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON MDT /1 PM CDT/ TODAY TO 6 PM MDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON MDT /1 PM CDT/ TODAY TO 6 PM MDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS AFTERNOON. AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE LOWER 70S THIS AFTERNOON...RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL DROP TO NEAR 15%. ALTHOUGH WIND SPEEDS WILL BE MARGINAL FOR BURNING...OCCASIONAL GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH WILL BE LIKELY DURING THE TIME OF PEAK HEATING DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. WINDS WILL QUICKLY SUBSIDE AT SUNSET. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ 24
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS83 KGLD 282057 RFWGLD RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 257 PM MDT MON APR 28 2008 COZ253-254-KSZ027-041-290500- /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.A.0009.080429T1700Z-080430T0200Z/ /O.CON.KGLD.FW.W.0014.000000T0000Z-080429T0000Z/ KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-WALLACE-GREELEY- 257 PM MDT MON APR 28 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES AROUND 70 DEGREES...VERY LOW RELATIVITY HUMIDITY VALUES...AND OCCASIONAL WIND GUSTS TO 25 MPH ARE COMBINING FOR DANGEROUS BURN CONDITIONS. AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE LOWER 80S WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL SPREAD EAST OUT OF COLORADO AND INTO PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. SIMILAR TO TODAY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL DIP TO NEAR 10 PERCENT IN THE AFTERNOON WITH OCCASIONAL WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 25 MPH. RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$ KSZ042-290000- /O.CON.KGLD.FW.W.0014.000000T0000Z-080429T0000Z/ WICHITA- 357 PM CDT MON APR 28 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 70S...VERY LOW RELATIVITY HUMIDITY VALUES...AND OCCASIONAL WIND GUSTS TO 25 MPH ARE COMBINING FOR DANGEROUS BURN CONDITIONS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ COZ252-KSZ001-013-NEZ079-290500- /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.A.0009.080429T1700Z-080430T0200Z/ YUMA-CHEYENNE KS-SHERMAN-DUNDY- 257 PM MDT MON APR 28 2008 /357 PM CDT MON APR 28 2008/ ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE LOWER 80S WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL SPREAD EAST OUT OF COLORADO AND INTO PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL DIP TO AROUND 15 PERCENT IN THE AFTERNOON WITH OCCASIONAL WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 25 MPH. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$ 24
000 WWUS83 KGLD 282357 RFWGLD RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 557 PM MDT MON APR 28 2008 COZ253-254-KSZ027-041-290900- /O.EXP.KGLD.FW.W.0014.000000T0000Z-080429T0000Z/ /O.CON.KGLD.FW.A.0009.080429T1700Z-080430T0200Z/ KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-WALLACE-GREELEY- 557 PM MDT MON APR 28 2008 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. HUMIDITIES WILL GRADUALLY IMPROVE THROUGH THE EVENING AS TEMPRATURES COOL. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE LOWER 80S WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL SPREAD EAST OUT OF COLORADO AND INTO PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. SIMILAR TO TODAY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL DIP TO NEAR 10 PERCENT IN THE AFTERNOON WITH OCCASIONAL WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 25 MPH. RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$ KSZ042-290100- /O.EXP.KGLD.FW.W.0014.000000T0000Z-080429T0000Z/ WICHITA- 657 PM CDT MON APR 28 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. HUMIDITIES WILL GRADUALLY IMPROVE THROUGH THE EVENING AS TEMPRATURES COOL. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ COZ252-KSZ001-013-NEZ079-290900- /O.CON.KGLD.FW.A.0009.080429T1700Z-080430T0200Z/ YUMA-CHEYENNE KS-SHERMAN-DUNDY- 557 PM MDT MON APR 28 2008 /657 PM CDT MON APR 28 2008/ ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... A FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE LOWER 80S WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL SPREAD EAST OUT OF COLORADO AND INTO PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL DIP TO AROUND 15 PERCENT IN THE AFTERNOON WITH OCCASIONAL WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 25 MPH. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Apr 28, 4:06 AM MDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 4:06 AM MDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 406 AM MDT MON APR 28 2008 .DISCUSSION... 334 AM MDT MON APR 28 2008 FORECAST CONCERNS IN THE SHORT TERM WILL BE TEMPERATURES AND RESULTING DRY CONDITIONS THROUGH WEDNESDAY AND THEN THE POSSIBILITY OF PRECIPITATION LATE IN THE WEEK. AN UPPER RIDGE OVER THE INTER-MOUNTAIN REGION TODAY WILL TRANSLATE EASTWARD OVER THE ROCKIES AND HIGH PLAINS THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF THE WEEK. AS IT DOES...A SURFACE LEE TROUGH DEEPENS ALONG THE FRONT RANGE...INCREASING THE SOUTHERLY FLOW ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. THE RIDGE ALOFT ALONG WITH THE SOUTHERLY NEAR SURFACE FLOW WILL WARM TEMPERATURES INTO THE 70S TODAY AND WELL INTO THE 80S BY WEDNESDAY. WITH A LACK OF MOISTURE...RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL INTO THE LOWER TEENS TODAY AND TUESDAY AND INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS ON WEDNESDAY...MAINLY IN THE SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. WINDS TODAY WILL BE LIGHT...SO ALTHOUGH THERE WILL BE DRY CONDITIONS...WE WILL LIKELY NOT MEET ANY RED FLAG WARNING CRITERIA. HOWEVER...AS THE LEE TROUGH DEEPENS AND THE SOUTHERLY WIND SPEEDS INCREASE EACH DAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...THE FIRE DANGER WILL INCREASE...BRINGING THE LIKELIHOOD OF A RED FLAG WARNING TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTER CONSOLIDATES OVER THE COLORADO/KANSAS BORDER AREA LATE WEDNESDAY IN RESPONSE TO THE APPROACHING UPPER TROUGH. THIS LOW PRESSURE AREA IS IN A MORE NORTHERLY POSITION THAN PREVIOUS MODEL RUNS HAD SUGGESTED. WHILE THIS AGREES WITH THE POSITION OF THE PREVIOUS GFS RUN...THE GFS APPEARS TOO QUICK TO LIFT THE SYSTEM THROUGH THE REGION. WILL BLEND THE SOLUTION SOMEWHAT TO INCORPORATE THE MORE NORTHERLY POSITION AND TO SLOW THE PROGRESS THROUGH THE REGION. THE RESULT IS KEEPING THE HIGHER POPS AND MAIN PRECIPITATION AREAS FURTHER NORTH DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK. THE COOLER AIR BEHIND THE COLD FRONT EXPECTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT ALONG WITH THE INCREASED CLOUD COVER ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WILL KEEP HIGHS IN THE 50S. DID NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE WEEKENDS GRADUAL WARMING TREND AND DRY CONDITIONS. LOCKHART && .AVIATION... 334 AM MDT MON APR 28 2008 VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE FROM EARLY THIS MORNING THROUGH TODAY AND TONIGHT. A CLEAR SKY AND LIGHT WINDS WILL BE OBSERVED UNDER HIGH PRESSURE THIS MORNING. WINDS WILL TURN SOUTH AND INCREASE BY LATE AFTERNOON AND THROUGH THE EVENING AS A LEE SURFACE TROUGH DEEPENS ALONG THE FRONT RANGE AND HIGH CLOUDS INCREASE AS A SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVES THROUGH THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. LOCKHART && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. && WFO GOODLAND
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 5:32 AM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 532 AM MDT MON APR 28 2008 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-291645- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 532 AM MDT MON APR 28 2008 /632 AM CDT MON APR 28 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY DRY CONDITIONS WITH INCREASING SOUTHERLY WINDS AND VERY WARM TEMPERATURES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WILL PRODUCE AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE TRI-STATE REGION. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE TRI-STATE REGION. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT MAY DEVELOP. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. LOCKHART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:57 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 12 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2008Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2008Every red flag warning in 2008
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.