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Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Oct 30, 2010, 1:35 PM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Nov 1, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for . No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 30, 2010, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 1, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 30, 2010, 1:56 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 4177 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
764 WWUS83 KDDC 301835 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 135 PM CDT SAT OCT 30 2010 ...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR RAPID FIRE SPREAD THIS AFTERNOON... .GUSTY WINDS ON THE WEST SIDE OF A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CENTERED NEAR THE OKLAHOMA BORDER SOUTH OF DODGE CITY WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON. VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RESULT IN AN ENVIRONMENT FAVORING RAPID SPREAD OF WILDLAND FIRES. OUTSIDE BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED. KSZ063-064-076>078-085>087-310645- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0013.101101T1800Z-101101T2300Z/ FINNEY-HODGEMAN-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- 135 PM CDT SAT OCT 30 2010 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 6 PM CDT MONDAY FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 063...064... 076...077...078...085...086 AND 087... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 6 PM CDT MONDAY. * FIRE WEATHER ZONE 063 FINNEY... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 064 HODGEMAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 076 HASKELL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 077 GRAY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 078 FORD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 086 SEWARD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 MEADE. * NORTHEAST WINDS SUSTAINED AT 15 TO 2O MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 30 MPH WILL DIMINISH AFTER 600 PM. * LOWEST RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RANGE FROM 8 TO 15 PERCENT. * OUTSIDE BURNING IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR RAPID SPREAD OF WILDLAND FIRES. 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. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC 01
1 follow-up statement
637 WWUS83 KDDC 301856 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 156 PM CDT SAT OCT 30 2010 ......CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR RAPID FIRE SPREAD THIS AFTERNOON.. .GUSTY WINDS ON THE WEST SIDE OF A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CENTERED NEAR THE OKLAHOMA BORDER SOUTH OF DODGE CITY WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON. VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RESULT IN AN ENVIRONMENT FAVORING RAPID SPREAD OF WILDLAND FIRES. OUTSIDE BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED. KSZ063-064-076>078-085>087-302300- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.W.0013.101101T1800Z-101101T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0014.101030T1856Z-101030T2300Z/ FINNEY-HODGEMAN-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- 156 PM CDT SAT OCT 30 2010 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * FIRE WEATHER ZONE 063 FINNEY... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 064 HODGEMAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 076 HASKELL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 077 GRAY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 078 FORD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 086 SEWARD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 MEADE. * NORTHEAST WINDS SUSTAINED AT 15 TO 2O MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 30 MPH WILL DIMINISH AFTER 600 PM. * LOWEST RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RANGE FROM 8 TO 15 PERCENT. * OUTSIDE BURNING IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR RAPID SPREAD OF WILDLAND FIRES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC 01
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 1:56 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Meade and 2 more | 4 hr |
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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.