Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 31, 2011, 7:36 AM CDT for 8 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 31, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT. 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 31, 2011, 7:36 AM CDT (12:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 31, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2011, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:38 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
842 WWUS83 KICT 311236 RFWICT URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 736 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2011 ...EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER WEST OF I-135 THIS AFTERNOON... KSZ032-033-047-048-050-067-082-091-312300- /O.NEW.KICT.FW.W.0006.110331T1700Z-110331T2300Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-RENO-KINGMAN-HARPER- 736 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 032...033...047...048...050...067...082 AND 091... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS GENERALLY WEST OF INTERSTATE 135 THIS AFTERNOON. * WIND...WILL BE OUT OF THE NORTHWEST AT 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...VALUES WILL RANGE FROM 28 TO 38 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON. * HIGHEST THREAT...WILL LIKELY BE GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE HIGHWAY 14 CORRIDOR WHERE WINDS WILL BE STRONGEST. * 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. PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS FIRE WEATHER PRODUCT. && $$ ADK
1 follow-up statement
863 WWUS83 KICT 312256 RFWICT URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 556 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2011 KSZ032-033-047-048-050-067-082-091-010000- /O.EXP.KICT.FW.W.0006.000000T0000Z-110331T2300Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-RENO-KINGMAN-HARPER- 556 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 032...033... 047...048...050...067...082 AND 091... CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED AND THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. $$ BILLINGS
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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.