Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 40, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Jul 1, 2011, 3:35 AM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 1, 2011, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 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
- Jul 1, 2011, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 1, 2011, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2011, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 3965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
214 WWUS83 KDDC 010835 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 335 AM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011 ...RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON... .NEAR RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES...AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FROM 5 TO 15 PERCENT...AND WINDS FROM 15 TO 25 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE HIGHWAY 56 CORRIDOR. THIS COMBINATION OF ELEMENTS MAY CREATE EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR CONDITIONS. KSZ078>080-086>089-012045- /O.UPG.KDDC.FW.A.0037.110701T1600Z-110702T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0040.110701T1600Z-110702T0200Z/ FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE- 335 AM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 078...079...080...086...087...088 AND 089... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS WILL AVERAGE 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY COULD RANGE FROM 10 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR RAPID LARGE FIRE GROWTH. OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 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. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
2 follow-up statements
312 WWUS83 KDDC 012024 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 324 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011 ...RED FLAG CONDITIONS OCCURRING THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... .RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FROM 5 TO 15 PERCENT...AND WINDS FROM 15 TO 25 MPH ARE OCCURRING. THIS COMBINATION OF ELEMENTS IS CREATING EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR CONDITIONS. KSZ063-075>077-085-020200- /O.EXA.KDDC.FW.W.0040.000000T0000Z-110702T0200Z/ FINNEY-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-STEVENS- 324 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 063...075... 076...077 AND 085... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS WILL AVERAGE 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL RANGE FROM 10 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR RAPID LARGE FIRE GROWTH. OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ KSZ078>080-086>089-020200- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0040.000000T0000Z-110702T0200Z/ FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE- 324 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 078... 079...080...086...087...088 AND 089... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTH WINDS WILL AVERAGE 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL RANGE FROM 10 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR RAPID LARGE FIRE GROWTH. OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 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. && $$ 33
860 WWUS83 KDDC 020142 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 842 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011 ...RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE ENDING ACROSS THE AREA... .WINDS ACROSS THE AREA HAVE DIMINISHED TO BELOW 20 MPH AND TEMPERATURES HAVE FALLEN SUFFICIENTLY TO END RED FLAG CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA. KSZ063-075>080-085>089-020245- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0040.000000T0000Z-110702T0200Z/ FINNEY-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- CLARK-COMANCHE- 842 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 063...075... 076...077...078...079...080...085...086...087...088 AND 089... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. $$ 33
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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.