Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 43, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Sep 12, 2011, 9:57 AM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It took effect at Sep 12, 2011, 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
- Sep 12, 2011, 9:57 AM CDT (14:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 12, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:58 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 2640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
867 WWUS83 KDDC 121457 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 957 AM CDT MON SEP 12 2011 ...DRY SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TODAY... .HOT TEMPERATURES, LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ090-130000- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0043.110912T1800Z-110913T0000Z/ BARBER- 957 AM CDT MON SEP 12 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 090... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...BARBER COUNTY * WINDS...FREQUENT GUSTS OVER 25 MPH ARE EXPECTED. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...HUMIDITY WILL BE AS LOW WAS 13 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 DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. 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. && $$ FINCH
1 follow-up statement
301 WWUS83 KDDC 122357 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 657 PM CDT MON SEP 12 2011 ...RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED THIS EVENING... .WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED LATE THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL BEGIN TO RISE AS EVENING APPROACHES. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. KSZ090-130100- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0043.000000T0000Z-110913T0000Z/ BARBER- 657 PM CDT MON SEP 12 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 090... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. $$ GERARD
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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.