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Red Flag Warning 39, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Oct 31, 2011, 4:34 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. 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
- Oct 31, 2011, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2011, 7:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 3037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
581 WWUS83 KGLD 312134 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 334 PM MDT MON OCT 31 2011 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON... .STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS AND VERY DRY AIR HAVE CREATED CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA. CONDITIONS WILL BEGIN TO IMPROVE AROUND SUNSET. KSZ003-004-014>016-028-029-010100- /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.W.0039.111031T2134Z-111101T0100Z/ DECATUR-NORTON-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-LOGAN-GOVE- 434 PM CDT MON OCT 31 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 003...004... 014...015...016...028 AND 029... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 003 DECATUR... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 004 NORTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 014 THOMAS... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 015 SHERIDAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 016 GRAHAM... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 028 LOGAN AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 029 GOVE. * WINDS...SOUTH 10 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AROUND 14 PERCENT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ JRM
1 follow-up statement
224 WWUS83 KGLD 010010 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 610 PM MDT MON OCT 31 2011 KSZ003-004-014>016-028-029-010115- /O.CAN.KGLD.FW.W.0039.000000T0000Z-111101T0100Z/ DECATUR-NORTON-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-LOGAN-GOVE- 710 PM CDT MON OCT 31 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 003...004...014...015...016... 028 AND 029... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. WINDS HAVE DECREASED ACROSS THE AREA AND HUMIDITIES WILL CONTINUE TO RISE THROUGH THE EVENING...THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 4:11 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Greeley, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 23 hr |
Nearby
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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.