Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this red flag warning at Apr 10, 2011, 4:25 PM CDT for Barton County, Vernon County, Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. 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
- Apr 10, 2011, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2011, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -847 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 613 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 617 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
942 WWUS83 KSGF 102125 RFWSGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 425 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011 ...WINDY AND DRY CONDITIONS INTO EARLY THIS EVENING... .A DRYLINE HAS PASSED THROUGH EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO FAR WESTERN MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. BEHIND THIS DRYLINE TEMPERATURES HAVE WARMED INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 80S WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY DROPPING INTO THE 15 TO 25 PERCENT RANGE. ALONG WITH THE LOW HUMIDITY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE STRONG AND BREEZY WITH SUSTAINED WINDS AROUND 20 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS EXPECTED INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-077-110100- /O.NEW.KSGF.FW.W.0005.110410T2125Z-110411T0100Z/ BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-VERNON-BARTON- 425 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FIRE WEATHER ZONES... IN MISSOURI...66...77 IN KANSAS...73...97...101 A VERY DRY AND WARM AIR MASS HAS SPREAD OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. THESE DRY CONDITIONS COUPLED WITH GUSTY WINDS WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED WINDS AROUND 20 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS AND HUMIDITY VALUES BELOW 25 PERCENT CAN BE EXPECTED FOR THE REMINDER OF THE AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. WIND EXPOSED AREAS SUCH AS GRASSLANDS AND EXPOSED RIDGE TOPS WILL BE THE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE HIGHEST WINDS. 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. && $$ WISE
1 follow-up statement
896 WWUS83 KSGF 110100 RFWSGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 800 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-077-110200- /O.EXP.KSGF.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-110411T0100Z/ BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-VERNON-BARTON- 800 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FIRE WEATHER ZONES... IN MISSOURI...66...77 IN KANSAS...73...97...101 WITH THE SUN SETTING...TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO COOL AND WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH. AS A RESULT...RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE LATER THIS EVENING. $$ GAEDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 10:01 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | SGF | Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 19 more | 9 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2011Red Flag Warnings in Missouri, 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.