Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2010
Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Oct 29, 2010, 11:12 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 29, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT. 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
- Oct 29, 2010, 11:12 AM CDT (16:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 29, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:12 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 2756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2010Every red flag warning in 2010
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.