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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS

March 30, 2010Dickinson County, Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 30, 2010, 5:30 AM CDT for Dickinson County, Ottawa County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 30, 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
Mar 30, 2010, 5:30 AM CDT (10:30 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 30, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Mar 30, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS

Counties Dickinson County, KS, Ottawa County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 257 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2010-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2010-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 5:30 AM CDTFire Weather WatchTOPAnderson, Coffey, Dickinson, Franklin, Lyon, Morris and 1 more21 hr

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.