Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 11, 2011, 10:05 AM CST for 12 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 11, 2011, 12:00 PM CST. 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 11, 2011, 10:05 AM CST (16:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 11, 2011, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2011, 5:42 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 2428 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
532 WWUS83 KTOP 111605 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1005 AM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... .LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH STRONGER GUSTS...ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND DRY FUELS WILL BE SUPPORTIVE OF DANGEROUS FIRE BEHAVIOR WITH RAPID FIRE SPREAD POSSIBLE. KSZ026-035>040-054>056-058-059-120100- /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0002.110311T1800Z-110312T0100Z/ JEFFERSON-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON- OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 1005 AM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 026...035... 036...037...038...039...040...054...055...056...058 AND 059... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA...IN COORDINATION WITH AREA LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES... HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING... WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 026 JEFFERSON COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 035 DICKINSON COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 036 GEARY COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 037 MORRIS COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 038 WABAUNSEE COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 039 SHAWNEE COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 040 DOUGLAS COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 054 LYON COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 055 OSAGE COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 056 FRANKLIN COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 058 COFFEY COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 059 ANDERSON COUNTY. * WIND...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 30 MPH. THE WIND WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING WITH A PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT. * HUMIDITY...HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL FALL BELOW 20 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON. HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL RECOVER EARLY THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS COUPLED WITH CURED GRASSES...WILL BE SUPPORTIVE OF EXTREMELY DANGEROUS FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
1 follow-up statement
358 WWUS83 KTOP 112342 AAA RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 542 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 KSZ026-035>040-054>056-058-059-120045- /O.CAN.KTOP.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110312T0100Z/ JEFFERSON-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS-WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON- OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 542 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 026...035... 036...037...038...039...040... 054...055...056...058 AND 059... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 026 JEFFERSON COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 035 DICKINSON COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 036 GEARY COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 037 MORRIS COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 038 WABAUNSEE COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 039 SHAWNEE COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 040 DOUGLAS COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 054 LYON COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 055 OSAGE COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 056 FRANKLIN COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 058 COFFEY COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 059 ANDERSON COUNTY. WIND SPEED HAVE DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE PAST HOUR AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS ARE BEGINNING TO SLOWLY INCREASE AS TEMPERATURES COOL. ALTHOUGH WIND SPEEDS MAY BRIEFLY PICK UP AGAIN EARLY THIS EVENING...THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AS WELL. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
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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.