Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 11, 2011, 11:48 AM CST for 9 counties in Kansas. 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 11, 2011, 11:48 AM CST (17:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2011, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 3424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
533 WWUS83 KDDC 111748 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1148 AM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON... .NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTING IN EXCESS OF 25 MPH ALONG WITH VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE DEVELOPED IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS LATE THIS MORNING. A COLD FRONT THAT EXTENDED FROM CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO EAST CENTRAL COLORADO LATE THIS MORNING WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. INCREASING RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BEHIND THE FRONT WILL RESULT IN CONDITIONS LESS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR BY LATE AFTERNOON. KSZ061-062-074>076-084>087-112200- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0005.110311T1748Z-110311T2200Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- 1148 AM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 /1048 AM MST FRI MAR 11 2011/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST /3 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 061...062...074...075...076...084...085...086 AND 087... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST /3 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 061 HAMILTON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 KEARNY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 STANTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 GRANT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 076 HASKELL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 086 SEWARD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 MEADE. * WIND...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH BECOMING NORTH 10 TO 20 MPH BY LATE AFTERNOON. * HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AROUND 10 PERCENT GRADUALLY WILL INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 PERCENT AFTER COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE. * IMPACTS...FUELS ARE EXTREMELY DRY AND WILL BURN RAPIDLY AND INTENSELY. WILD FIRES WILL SPREAD QUICKLY AND WILL BE VERY 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. && $$ 01 HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
2 follow-up statements
255 WWUS83 KDDC 112143 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 343 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON... .NORTH WINDS GUSTING IN EXCESS OF 25 MPH ALONG WITH VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CONTINUE IN FAR SOUTHWEST KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. DECREASING WINDS AND INCREASING RELATIVE HUMIDITIES LATER THIS EVENING WILL RESULT IN CONDITIONS LESS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. KSZ061-062-074>076-084>087-120000- /O.EXT.KDDC.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-110312T0000Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- 343 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 /243 PM MST FRI MAR 11 2011/ ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 061...062...074...075...076...084...085...086 AND 087... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 061 HAMILTON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 KEARNY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 STANTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 GRANT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 076 HASKELL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 086 SEWARD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 MEADE. * WIND...NORTH WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL DECREASE AFTER 600 PM CST. * HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AROUND 15 PERCENT GRADUALLY WILL INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 PERCENT AFTER 600 PM CST. * IMPACTS...FUELS ARE EXTREMELY DRY AND WILL BURN RAPIDLY AND INTENSELY. WILD FIRES WILL SPREAD QUICKLY AND WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
092 WWUS83 KDDC 112357 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 557 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR ARE DIMINISHING... .NORTHERLY WINDS HAVE BEGUN TO SUBSIDE ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS THIS EVENING. MEANWHILE, RELATIVE HUMIDITIES CONTINUE TO CLIMB AS TEMPERATURES SLOWLY FALL. AS A RESULT, WILDFIRE CONDITIONS HAVE DIMINISHED ACROSS THE AREA. KSZ061-062-074>076-084>087-120100- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-110312T0000Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- 557 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 /457 PM MST FRI MAR 11 2011/ ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 061...062...074...075...076...084...085...086 AND 087... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 061 HAMILTON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 KEARNY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 STANTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 GRANT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 076 HASKELL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 086 SEWARD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 MEADE. * WIND...NORTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. * HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE CLIMBED WELL ABOVE 15 PERCENT EARLY THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS NO LONGER FAVOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. THEREFORE, 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.