Alert archive / Kentucky / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this red flag warning at Oct 16, 2011, 2:37 AM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Oct 16, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 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 16, 2011, 2:37 AM EDT (06:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 16, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2011, 4:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:42 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 2275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
801 WWUS81 KRLX 160637 RFWRLX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 237 AM EDT SUN OCT 16 2011 KYZ101>103-105-161445- /O.UPG.KRLX.FW.A.0001.111016T1500Z-111016T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KRLX.FW.W.0001.111016T1600Z-111016T2300Z/ GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY- 237 AM EDT SUN OCT 16 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...STRONG WINDS...AND DRY FUELS...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 101...102... 103 AND 105... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING...FOR GREENUP...CARTER...BOYD...AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * WIND...SUSTAINED 15 TO 22 MPH...WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH * HUMIDITY...23 TO 28 PERCENT * 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
569 WWUS81 KRLX 161458 RFWRLX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1058 AM EDT SUN OCT 16 2011 KYZ101>103-105-162300- /O.CON.KRLX.FW.W.0001.111016T1600Z-111016T2300Z/ GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY- 1058 AM EDT SUN OCT 16 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...STRONG WINDS...AND DRY FUELS...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 101...102... 103 AND 105... * WIND...SUSTAINED 15 TO 22 MPH...WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH * HUMIDITY...23 TO 28 PERCENT * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
199 WWUS81 KRLX 162005 RFWRLX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 405 PM EDT SUN OCT 16 2011 KYZ101>103-105-162115- /O.CAN.KRLX.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-111016T2300Z/ GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY- 405 PM EDT SUN OCT 16 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR FIRE DANGER FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 101...102...103 AND 105... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR FIRE DANGER. SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NOW UNDER CRITERIA FOR RED FLAG CONDITIONS...SO THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR FIRE DANGER IS BEING CANCELLED. EVEN SO...WINDS ARE GUSTING TO 30 MPH WITH DRY CONDITIONS...SO OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. $$
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.