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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Bismarck, ND

January 3, 201214 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this red flag warning at Jan 3, 2012, 12:33 PM MST for 14 counties in North Dakota. 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
Jan 3, 2012, 12:33 PM MST (19:33 UTC)
Expired
Jan 3, 2012, 5:00 PM MST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND

Counties Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2012-01-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2012-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

623 
WWUS83 KBIS 031933
RFWBIS

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
133 PM CST TUE JAN 3 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING FOR SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
THIS AFTERNOON FOR STRONG WINDS AND VERY DRY FUELS...

.NORTHWESTERLY WINDS SUSTAINED AT 25 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO NEAR 
40 MPH COMBINED WITH VERY DRY FUELS WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR
RAPID FIRE GROWTH AND VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER THROUGH THE REMAINDER
OF THE AFTERNOON ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL.

NDZ017>020-031>034-040>045-040000-
/O.NEW.KBIS.FW.W.0001.120103T1933Z-120104T0000Z/
MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-
SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-
133 PM CST TUE JAN 3 2012 /1233 PM MST TUE JAN 3 2012/

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS
EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND VERY DRY FUELS FOR SOUTHWESTERN AND
WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND VERY DRY FUELS FOR SOUTHWESTERN AND
WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5
PM MST/ THIS EVENING.

* SUSTAINED WINDS AT 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH ARE 
  EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS FAR SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA. 

* STRONG WINDS COMBINED WITH VERY DRY FUELS WILL CREATE THE
  POTENTIAL FOR RAPID FIRE GROWTH.

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.

&&

$$

TM
1 follow-up statement
987 
WWUS83 KBIS 032356
RFWBIS

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
556 PM CST TUE JAN 3 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING EXPIRING FOR SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL 
NORTH DAKOTA...

.RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AND WINDS HAVE DECREASED BELOW CRITICAL
FIRE WEATHER THRESHOLDS. THUS...THE RED FLAG WARNING IS BEING
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AS SCHEDULED THIS EVENING.

NDZ017>020-031>034-040>045-040100-
/O.EXP.KBIS.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120104T0000Z/
MCKENZIE-DUNN-MERCER-OLIVER-GOLDEN VALLEY-BILLINGS-STARK-MORTON-
SLOPE-HETTINGER-GRANT-BOWMAN-ADAMS-SIOUX-
556 PM CST TUE JAN 3 2012 /456 PM MST TUE JAN 3 2012/

...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS
EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...

THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS
EVENING. 

CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER OCCURRING ACROSS
SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THIS EVENING.

$$
RK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 2, 5:24 PM MSTWind AdvisoryBISAdams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Grant and 6 more24 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in North Dakota, 2012Every red flag warning in 2012

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.