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Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Sep 29, 2011, 1:30 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas. 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
- Sep 29, 2011, 1:30 PM CDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
All 23 counties
Anderson County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 1976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
057 WWUS83 KTOP 291830 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 130 PM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...BREEZY AND DRY CONDITIONS BRING EXTREME FIRE DANGER THIS AFTERNOON... KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-292200- /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0007.110929T1830Z-110929T2200Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 130 PM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR BREEZY CONDITIONS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. * WIND...NORTH WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 17 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...75 TO 81. * IMPACTS...WITH THESE DRY AND BREEZY CONDITIONS COMBINED WITH AREA FUELS WHICH ARE DRY AND CURED....FIRES CAN START QUICKLY...SPREAD FURIOUSLY AND BURN INTENSELY. ALL FIRES ARE POTENTIALLY SERIOUS. OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
574 WWUS83 KTOP 292129 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 429 PM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-300000- /O.EXT.KTOP.FW.W.0007.000000T0000Z-110930T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 429 PM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY NORTH WINDS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... * AFFECTED AREA...NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. * WIND...NORTH WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. * HUMIDITY...15 TO 20 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...75 TO 81. * IMPACTS...FIRES CAN START QUICKLY...SPREAD FURIOUSLY AND BURN INTENSELY. ALL FIRES ARE POTENTIALLY SERIOUS. OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE OCCURRING NOW. A COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...STRONG WINDS...AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ WOLTERS
754 WWUS83 KTOP 292353 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 653 PM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-300100- /O.EXP.KTOP.FW.W.0007.000000T0000Z-110930T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 653 PM CDT THU SEP 29 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO COOL WITH WINDS STEADILY DIMINISHING. THEREFORE THE CONDITIONS FOR DANGEROUS FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL BECOME LESS FAVORABLE. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 7 PM. $$ WOLTERS
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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.