Alert archive / North Dakota / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Bismarck, ND
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 5:24 PM MST | Wind Advisory | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Grant and 6 more | 24 hr |
Nearby
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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.