Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2009
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Jan 31, 2009, 2:57 AM CST for 18 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jan 31, 2009, 12:00 PM CST. 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
- Jan 31, 2009, 2:57 AM CST (08:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 31, 2009, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 31, 2009, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 2857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 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 310857 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 257 AM CST SAT JAN 31 2009 ...EXTREME FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... .A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE IS FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP...USHERING IN MUCH DRIER AIR INTO SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL KANSAS. THE COMBINATION OF DRY AIR AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT FAVORABLE FOR WILDFIRES. KSZ045-046-063-311000- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.A.0002.090131T1800Z-090201T0000Z/ NESS-RUSH-FINNEY- 257 AM CST SAT JAN 31 2009 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 20 MPH ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. $$ KSZ064>066-075>081-084>090-311700- /O.UPG.KDDC.FW.A.0002.090131T1800Z-090201T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0003.090131T1800Z-090201T0000Z/ HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 257 AM CST SAT JAN 31 2009 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO AROUND 15 PERCENT OR LESS BY EARLY AFTERNOON. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THIS WILL RESULT IN RED FLAG CONDITIONS DURING THE AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS SHOULD RAPIDLY IMPROVE TOWARD SUNSET AS TEMPERATURES START TO FALL AND WINDS DECREASE. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ KSZ074-311700- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0003.090131T1800Z-090201T0000Z/ STANTON- 257 AM CST SAT JAN 31 2009 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO AROUND 15 PERCENT OR LESS BY EARLY AFTERNOON. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THIS WILL RESULT IN RED FLAG CONDITIONS DURING THE AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS SHOULD RAPIDLY IMPROVE TOWARD SUNSET AS TEMPERATURES START TO FALL AND WINDS DECREASE. 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. $$ RUSSELL
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS83 KDDC 311630 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1030 AM CST SAT JAN 31 2009 ...EXTREME FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON... .A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE IS FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP...USHERING IN MUCH DRIER AIR INTO SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL KANSAS. THE COMBINATION OF DRY AIR AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT FAVORABLE FOR WILDFIRES. KSZ064>066-074>081-084>090-010000- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0003.090131T1800Z-090201T0000Z/ HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS- KIOWA-PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 1030 AM CST SAT JAN 31 2009 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO AROUND 15 PERCENT OR LESS BY EARLY AFTERNOON. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THIS WILL RESULT IN RED FLAG CONDITIONS DURING THE AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS SHOULD RAPIDLY IMPROVE TOWARD SUNSET AS TEMPERATURES START TO FALL AND WINDS DECREASE. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ 06
000 WWUS83 KDDC 010000 RFWDDC RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 600 PM CST SAT JAN 31 2009 ...FIRE DANGER DECREASING THIS EVENING... .WINDS HAVE QUICKLY DECREASED DURING THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS. IN ADDITION...FALLING TEMPERATURES WILL CAUSE THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO INCREASE TONIGHT. THIS WILL BRING A DECREASING THREAT FOR WILDFIRES. KSZ064>066-074>081-084>090-010100- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-090201T0000Z/ HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS- KIOWA-PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 600 PM CST SAT JAN 31 2009 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS HAVE DECREASED INTO THE 5 TO 15 MPH RANGE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE STARTED TO RISE ABOVE 15 PERCENT. THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ 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.