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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 1, 2008, 1:58 PM CST for Barton County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 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, 1:58 PM CST (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2008, 5:54 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 2320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 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 KICT 011958 RFWICT RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 158 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 KSZ032-047-020000- /O.NEW.KICT.FW.W.0002.080301T1958Z-080302T0000Z/ RUSSELL-BARTON- 158 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. THE COMBINATION OF STRONG SOUTH WINDS...WARM TEMPERATURES AND RELATIVELY LOW HUMIDITY VALUES HAS RESULTED IN EXTREME FIRE DANGER LEVELS. 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. PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. $$ KED
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS83 KICT 012354 RFWICT RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 554 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 KSZ032-047-020100- /O.CAN.KICT.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080302T0000Z/ RUSSELL-BARTON- 554 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. WINDS OVER CENTRAL KANSAS HAVE SLACKENED OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS TO BELOW RED FLAG WARNING CRITERIA AND ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DECREASE AFTER DARK. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ LAWSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 11:19 AM CST | Wind Advisory | ICT | Barton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper and 11 more | 7 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.