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Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this red flag warning at Sep 29, 2011, 2:02 PM CDT for 17 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 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 29, 2011, 2:02 PM CDT (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
All 24 counties
Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
541 WWUS83 KEAX 291902 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 202 PM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...EXTREME FIRE DANGER RISK THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON... KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001-002-011>013-020-021-028>030-037-038- 043>045-053-054-292200- /O.NEW.KEAX.FW.W.0004.110929T1902Z-110929T2200Z/ ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-BUCHANAN- CLINTON-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS- BATES-HENRY- 202 PM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002... 011...012...013...020...021...025...028...029...030...037...038... 043...044...045...053...054...057...060...102...103...104 AND 105... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 025...057... 060...102...103...104 AND 105. IN MISSOURI...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002...011...012...013...020...021...028...029... 030...037...038...043...044...045...053 AND 054. * WIND...SUSTAINED WINDS BETWEEN 15 AND 25 MPH GUSTING TO 35 MPH. WINDS WILL SUBSIDE TO 10 TO 15 MPH THIS EVENING. * HUMIDITY...WILL RANGE BETWEEN 15 AND 25 PERCENT IN MOST LOCATIONS. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. 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. && $$ DUX
1 follow-up statement
909 WWUS83 KEAX 292129 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 429 PM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...EXTREME FIRE DANGER RISK THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON... KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001-002-011>013-020-021-028>030-037-038- 043>045-053-054-300000- /O.EXT.KEAX.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-110930T0000Z/ ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-BUCHANAN- CLINTON-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS- BATES-HENRY- 429 PM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002... 011...012...013...020...021...025...028...029...030...037...038... 043...044...045...053...054...057...060...102...103...104 AND 105... * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 025...057... 060...102...103...104 AND 105. IN MISSOURI...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002...011...012...013...020...021...028...029... 030... 037...038...043...044...045...053 AND 054. * WIND...SUSTAINED WINDS BETWEEN 15 AND 25 MPH GUSTING TO 35 MPH. WINDS WILL SUBSIDE TO 10 TO 15 MPH AFTER SUNSET. * HUMIDITY...WILL RANGE BETWEEN 15 AND 25 PERCENT IN MOST LOCATIONS LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL BEGIN TO RISE THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ HAWBLITZEL
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Missouri, 2011Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2011Every red flag warning in 2011
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.