Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 19, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Jul 24, 2012, 10:13 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 24, 2012, 2:00 PM CDT. 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
- Jul 24, 2012, 10:13 AM CDT (15:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 24, 2012, 2:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:16 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 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
171 WWUS83 KDDC 241513 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1013 AM CDT TUE JUL 24 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED TODAY... .CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AS VERY HOT TEMPERATURES DRIVE THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY DOWN AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS DEVELOP... KSZ043-044-062-063-074-075-084-250100- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0019.120724T1900Z-120725T0100Z/ SCOTT-LANE-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-MORTON- 1013 AM CDT TUE JUL 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS FOR WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 043 SCOTT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 044 LANE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 KEARNY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 063 FINNEY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 STANTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 GRANT AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON. * WINDS...25 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS AS HIGH AS 35 MPH. * TIMING...2 TO 8 PM. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...10 TO 15 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...102 TO 106 DEGREES. * 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. && $$ FINCH
1 follow-up statement
484 WWUS83 KDDC 250105 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 805 PM CDT TUE JUL 24 2012 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... .TEMPERATURES HAVE SLOWLY COOLED AND WINDS ARE BEGINNING TO SETTLE DOWN. RED FLAG WARNINGS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO EXIST FOR THE REST OF THIS EVENING. KSZ043-044-062-063-074-075-084-250215- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0019.000000T0000Z-120725T0100Z/ SCOTT-LANE-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-MORTON- 805 PM CDT TUE JUL 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS FOR WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... CONDITIONS HAVE EASED SINCE EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON, AND THUS THE RED FLAG WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT. $$ 12
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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.