Alert archive / Missouri / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this red flag warning at Mar 11, 2011, 9:24 AM CST for Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas; 10 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Mar 11, 2011, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 7 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 11, 2011, 9:24 AM CST (15:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 11, 2011, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2011, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:24 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 2230 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
400 WWUS83 KSGF 111524 RFWSGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 924 AM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR STRONG SOUTH WINDS AND LOW AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE OVER THE REGION AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT OVER THE PLAINS. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI. LOW HUMIDITY LESS THAN 25 PERCENT DURING THE MID AFTERNOON HOURS IS ALSO EXPECTED. KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-067-077-078-088-089-093-094-101-102-112330- /O.NEW.KSGF.FW.W.0001.110311T1800Z-110312T0100Z/ BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-VERNON-ST. CLAIR-BARTON-CEDAR-JASPER- DADE-NEWTON-LAWRENCE-MCDONALD-BARRY- 924 AM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FIRE WEATHER ZONES... IN MISSOURI...66...67...77...78...88...89...93...94...101 ...102 IN KANSAS...73...97...101 LOW AFTERNOON HUMIDITY AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM OSCEOLA TO CASSVILLE. THE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. 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. && $$ DSA
2 follow-up statements
806 WWUS83 KSGF 111831 RFWSGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1231 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AND LOW AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING DRY COLD FRONT WILL LEAD TO DANGEROUS WILDLAND FIRE CONDITIONS OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-067-077-078-088-089-093-094-101-102-120100- /O.CON.KSGF.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110312T0100Z/ BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-VERNON-ST. CLAIR-BARTON-CEDAR-JASPER- DADE-NEWTON-LAWRENCE-MCDONALD-BARRY- 1231 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FIRE WEATHER ZONES... IN MISSOURI...66...67...77...78...88...89...93...94...101 ...102 IN KANSAS...73...97...101 GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING DRY COLD FRONT WILL LEAD TO DANGEROUS WILDLAND FIRE CONDITIONS OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. LOW AFTERNOON HUMIDITY...DROPPING BELOW 20 PERCENT IN SOME AREAS...AND SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM OSCEOLA TO CASSVILLE. THE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ DSA
388 WWUS83 KSGF 120045 RFWSGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 645 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-067-077-078-088-089-093-094-101-102-120145- /O.EXP.KSGF.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110312T0100Z/ BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-VERNON-ST. CLAIR-BARTON-CEDAR-JASPER- DADE-NEWTON-LAWRENCE-MCDONALD-BARRY- 645 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FIRE WEATHER ZONES... IN MISSOURI...66...67...77...78...88...89...93...94...101 ...102 IN KANSAS...73...97...101 WINDS WILL GRADUALLY SUBSIDE AND MOISTURE LEVELS WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE THIS EVENING. THEREFORE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL END. $$ FOSTER
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.