Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 22, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 30, 2011, 11:42 AM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 8 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
- Apr 30, 2011, 11:42 AM CDT (16:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:45 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 2444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -357 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
643 WWUS83 KDDC 301642 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1142 AM CDT SAT APR 30 2011 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON... .BREEZY NORTHWEST WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ043>046-061>066-075>081-086>088-010100- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0022.110430T1642Z-110501T0100Z/ SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE- STAFFORD-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-SEWARD-MEADE- CLARK- 1142 AM CDT SAT APR 30 2011 /1042 AM MDT SAT APR 30 2011/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING. * WIND...WINDS WILL BE FROM THE NORTHWEST WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO BETWEEN 25 AND 30 MPH. * HUMIDITY...HUMIDITY WILL FALL TO BETWEEN 10 AND 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THESE CONDITIONS WILL FAVOR RAPID FIRE GROWTH. ANY FIRE WHICH MAY GET STARTED WILL SPREAD RAPIDLY AND WILL BE DIFFICULT 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. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
1 follow-up statement
706 WWUS83 KDDC 010042 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 742 PM CDT SAT APR 30 2011 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED... .FALLING TEMPERATURES AND INCREASING RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE EVENING. KSZ043>046-061>066-075>081-086>088-010145- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0022.000000T0000Z-110501T0100Z/ SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE- STAFFORD-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-SEWARD-MEADE- CLARK- 742 PM CDT SAT APR 30 2011 /642 PM MDT SAT APR 30 2011/ ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 043...044...045...046...061...062...063...064...065...066...075... 076...077...078...079...080...081...086...087 AND 088... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING. WIND SPEEDS WERE SUBSIDING THIS EVENING AS THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES INCREASE. AS A RESULT THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
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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.