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Red Flag Warning 18, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 27, 20127 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Jun 27, 2012, 2:23 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 27, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 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: Jun 27, 2012, 2:23 AM CDT (07:23 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 27, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 27, 2012, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Ellis County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:28 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 84 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 6157 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -59 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.

525 
WWUS83 KDDC 270723
RFWDDC

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
223 AM CDT WED JUN 27 2012

...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...

CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AS
VERY HOT TEMPERATURES DRIVE THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY DOWN AND GUSTY SOUTH
WINDS DEVELOP.

KSZ030-031-045-046-064>066-280200-
/O.UPG.KDDC.FW.A.0011.120627T1800Z-120628T0200Z/
/O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0018.120627T1800Z-120628T0200Z/
TREGO-ELLIS-NESS-RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-
223 AM CDT WED JUN 27 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM
CDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS FOR 
CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS...WHICH IS IN
EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE
WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

* AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 030 TREGO...FIRE WEATHER 
  ZONE 031 ELLIS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 045 NESS...FIRE WEATHER 
  ZONE 046 RUSH...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 064 HODGEMAN...FIRE WEATHER 
  ZONE 065 PAWNEE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 066 STAFFORD.

* WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH.

* TIMING...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON
  AS WINDS BECOME GUSTY AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS FALL RAPIDLY.

* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 8 PERCENT.

* TEMPERATURES...110 TO 113.

* IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND 
  GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE 
  BEHAVIOR. 

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.

&&

$$

GERARD

1 follow-up statement

514 
WWUS83 KDDC 280140
RFWDDC

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
840 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2012

KSZ030-031-045-046-064>066-280245-
/O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0018.000000T0000Z-120628T0200Z/
TREGO-ELLIS-NESS-RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-
840 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW
RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS FOR CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS...

$$

HOVORKA 42

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 2:18 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Kiowa, Pawnee and 4 more	31 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.