Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 10, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Oct 24, 2011, 4:04 AM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 24, 2011, 1:00 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
- Oct 24, 2011, 4:04 AM CDT (09:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 24, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 3281 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
908 WWUS83 KTOP 240904 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 404 AM CDT MON OCT 24 2011 KSZ008>010-020>022-034>037-242100- /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0010.111024T1800Z-111025T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON- GEARY-MORRIS- 404 AM CDT MON OCT 24 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...AREAS WEST OF A LINE FROM COUNCIL GROVE TO MANHATTAN TO MARYSVILLE. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...AFTERNOON HIGHS BETWEEN 82 AND 85. * IMPACTS...DRY FUELS...STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES COULD LEAD TO EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. && $$ WOLTERS
2 follow-up statements
695 WWUS83 KTOP 241739 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1239 PM CDT MON OCT 24 2011 KSZ008>010-020>022-034>037-250000- /O.CON.KTOP.FW.W.0010.111024T1800Z-111025T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON- GEARY-MORRIS- 1239 PM CDT MON OCT 24 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MARYSVILLE TO MANHATTAN TO COUNCIL GROVE... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...AREAS WEST OF A LINE FROM COUNCIL GROVE TO MANHATTAN TO MARYSVILLE. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 19 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...AFTERNOON HIGHS BETWEEN 82 AND 85. * IMPACTS...DRY FUELS...STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... AND WARM TEMPERATURES COULD LEAD TO EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. && $$
444 WWUS83 KTOP 242351 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 651 PM CDT MON OCT 24 2011 KSZ008>010-020>022-034>037-250100- /O.EXP.KTOP.FW.W.0010.000000T0000Z-111025T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON- GEARY-MORRIS- 651 PM CDT MON OCT 24 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. COOLING TEMPERATURES AS THE SUN SETS WILL ALLOW THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO INCREASE. HOWEVER...SOUTHERLY WINDS AT 15 TO 20 MPH SUSTAINED WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD. AS THE DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS BECOME LESS FAVORABLE...THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 7 PM. $$ BOWEN
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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.