Alert archive / Missouri / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this red flag warning at Oct 5, 2011, 4:05 AM CDT for Atchison County, Missouri. It took effect at Oct 5, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 2011, 4:05 AM CDT (09:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 5, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2011, 12:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
County Atchison County, MO
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 3565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 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.
759 WWUS83 KEAX 050905 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 405 AM CDT WED OCT 5 2011 MOZ001-060000- /O.NEW.KEAX.FW.W.0005.111005T1700Z-111006T0000Z/ ATCHISON MO- 405 AM CDT WED OCT 5 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 001... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN MISSOURI...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 001. * WIND...SOUTH WINDS BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL FALL TO BETWEEN 20 AND 25 PERCENT IN THE AFTERNOON. * 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. && $$ HAWBLITZEL
1 follow-up statement
628 WWUS83 KEAX 051735 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1235 PM CDT WED OCT 5 2011 MOZ001-051845- /O.CAN.KEAX.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-111006T0000Z/ ATCHISON MO- 1235 PM CDT WED OCT 5 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR ATCHISON COUNTY MISSOURI... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR ATCHISON COUNTY MISSOURI. WINDS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO BECOME STRONG AND GUSTY THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL INSTEAD CONTINUE FROM THE SOUTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. FIRE DANGER WILL REMAIN ELEVATED AS HUMIDITY VALUES FALL TO AROUND 25 PERCENT BETWEEN 1 AND 6 PM...BUT THE THREAT FOR UNCONTROLLED WILD FIRES HAS DIMINISHED. $$ BOOKBINDER
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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.