Alert archive / Missouri / Red Flag Warnings in 2009
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this red flag warning at Mar 23, 2009, 3:21 PM CDT for 16 counties in Missouri. 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
- Mar 23, 2009, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2009, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Camden County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Texas County, MO, Washington County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 409 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 KSGF 232021 RFWSGF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 321 PM CDT MON MAR 23 2009 MOZ057-058-069>073-081>084-092-096-097-099-105-240300- /O.NEW.KSGF.FW.W.0002.090323T2021Z-090324T0300Z/ MILLER-MARIES-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-CRAWFORD-WASHINGTON-LACLEDE- TEXAS-DENT-IRON-WRIGHT-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-REYNOLDS-OZARK- 321 PM CDT MON MAR 23 2009 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ALONG WITH MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BETWEEN 25 AND 30 PERCENT WILL RESULT IN EXTREME FIRE DANGER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. WHILE GUSTY WINDS WILL PERSIST TONIGHT...MOISTURE LEVELS WILL GRADUALLY RISE DURING THE EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$ FOSTER
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS83 KSGF 240304 RFWSGF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1004 PM CDT MON MAR 23 2009 MOZ057-058-069>073-081>084-092-096-097-099-105-240415- /O.EXP.KSGF.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-090324T0300Z/ MILLER-MARIES-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-CRAWFORD-WASHINGTON-LACLEDE- TEXAS-DENT-IRON-WRIGHT-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-REYNOLDS-OZARK- 1004 PM CDT MON MAR 23 2009 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY CONDITIONS HAVE IMPROVED SOMEWHAT OVER THE AREA THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE A HEIGHTENED FIRE DANGER ACROSS THE AREA OVERNIGHT. RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE REGION TOMORROW. $$ DSA
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.