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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Apr 2, 2011, 3:33 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 3 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
- Apr 2, 2011, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Phelps County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 488 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
112 WWUS83 KGID 022033 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 333 PM CDT SAT APR 2 2011 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING... .THE COMBINATION OF STRONG SURFACE WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY VALUES WILL PROMOTE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL SUBSIDE EARLY THIS EVENING AS HUMIDITY VALUES INCREASE TOWARDS SUNSET. KSZ005-006-017-018-NEZ072-073-082>084-030000- /O.NEW.KGID.FW.W.0002.110402T2033Z-110403T0000Z/ PHILLIPS-SMITH-ROOKS-OSBORNE-GOSPER-PHELPS-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN- 333 PM CDT SAT APR 2 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 005...006... 017...018...072...073...082...083 AND 084... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 005 PHILLIPS... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 006 SMITH...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 017 ROOKS... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 018 OSBORNE. IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 072 GOSPER...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 073 PHELPS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 082 FURNAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 083 HARLAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 FRANKLIN. * SUSTAINED SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL PERSIST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH ALSO EXPECTED. * HUMIDITY VALUES WILL RANGE FROM 15 TO 20 PERCENT THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING...WITH HUMIDITY VALUES INCREASING BY SUNSET. * THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PROMOTE THE POTENTIAL FOR RAPID FIRE GROWTH. 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. && $$ BRYANT
1 follow-up statement
606 WWUS83 KGID 030003 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 703 PM CDT SAT APR 2 2011 KSZ005-006-017-018-NEZ072-073-082>084-030115- /O.EXP.KGID.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110403T0000Z/ PHILLIPS-SMITH-ROOKS-OSBORNE-GOSPER-PHELPS-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN- 703 PM CDT SAT APR 2 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 005...006... 017...018...072...073...082... 083 AND 084... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 005 PHILLIPS... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 006 SMITH...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 017 ROOKS... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 018 OSBORNE. IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 072 GOSPER...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 073 PHELPS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 082 FURNAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 083 HARLAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 FRANKLIN. * THE FIRE DANGER WILL REMAIN EXTREME THROUGH 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING AS HUMIDITIES GRADUALLY RISE AND WINDS DECREASE. $$ EDDY
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Nebraska, 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.