Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 18, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 16, 2011, 3:42 AM CDT for Morton County, Seward County, Stevens County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 17, 2011, 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
- Apr 16, 2011, 3:42 AM CDT (08:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 17, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2011, 7:13 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:44 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 3622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
325 WWUS83 KDDC 160842 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 342 AM CDT SAT APR 16 2011 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... .INCREASING SOUTHWEST WINDS AND VERY DRY AIR WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY. KSZ084>086-161745- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0018.110417T1800Z-110418T0100Z/ MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD- 342 AM CDT SAT APR 16 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 8 PM CDT SUNDAY FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 084...085 AND 086... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 8 PM CDT SUNDAY. * WINDS...FREQUENT WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 25 AND 30 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. * HUMIDITY...AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL BE BETWEEN 8 AND 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THESE CONDITIONS WILL FAVOR RAPID FIRE GROWTH. ANY FIRE WHICH MAY GET STARTED WILL EASILY SPREAD AND QUICKLY BECOME HARD TO CONTROL. 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. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
1 follow-up statement
746 WWUS83 KDDC 161213 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 713 AM CDT SAT APR 16 2011 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... .INCREASING SOUTHWEST WINDS AND VERY DRY AIR WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY. KSZ084>086-170015- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.W.0018.110417T1800Z-110418T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0019.110416T1800Z-110417T0100Z/ MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD- 713 AM CDT SAT APR 16 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 084...085 AND 086... ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 084...085 AND 086... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * WINDS...FREQUENT WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 25 AND 30 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. * HUMIDITY...AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL BE BETWEEN 8 AND 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THESE CONDITIONS WILL FAVOR RAPID FIRE GROWTH. ANY FIRE WHICH MAY GET STARTED WILL EASILY SPREAD AND QUICKLY BECOME HARD TO CONTROL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:13 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DDC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 11 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:28 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 9 more | 36 hr |
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.