Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 15, 2008, 10:57 AM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 15, 2008, 12:00 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 15, 2008, 10:57 AM CDT (15:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 15, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 2116 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 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 KTOP 151557 RFWTOP RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1057 AM CDT TUE APR 15 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA...IN COORDINATION WITH AREA LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS FOR MIDDAY TODAY THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. THE RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BELOW 20 PERCENT...DRY VEGETATION AND FREQUENT WIND GUSTS OF 25 MPH OR GREATER... KSZ008>010-020>023-034>038-054-160000- /O.UPG.KTOP.FW.A.0001.080415T1800Z-080416T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0002.080415T1700Z-080416T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-POTTAWATOMIE-OTTAWA- DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-LYON- 1057 AM CDT TUE APR 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. VEGETATION IS CRITICALLY DRY...AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES IN THE AFTERNOON MAY BECOME 20% OR LESS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ KSZ039-055-058-059-160000- /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0002.080415T1700Z-080416T0000Z/ SHAWNEE-OSAGE-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 1057 AM CDT TUE APR 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. VEGETATION IS CRITICALLY DRY...AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES IN THE AFTERNOON MAY BECOME 20% OR LESS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ BLAIR/67
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS83 KTOP 152354 RFWTOP RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 654 PM CDT TUE APR 15 2008 KSZ008>010-020>023-034>039-054-055-058-059-160100- /O.EXP.KTOP.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080416T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-POTTAWATOMIE-OTTAWA- DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-LYON-OSAGE-COFFEY- ANDERSON- 654 PM CDT TUE APR 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH SOUTH WINDS WILL REMAIN STRONG AND GUSTY THROUGH THE EVENING ACROSS THE AREA...RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO SLOWLY RISE AS TEMPERATURES COOL. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 7 PM. HOWEVER...WITH THE STRONG WINDS AND VEGETATION REMAINING CRITICALLY DRY IN MANY AREAS...THE FIRE DANGER WILL REMAIN VERY HIGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. $$
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 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.