Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Sep 21, 2012, 2:44 AM CDT for Ellis County, Trego County, Kansas. It took effect at Sep 21, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for . 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 21, 2012, 2:44 AM CDT (07:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 21, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2012, 12:07 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Ellis County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 3009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
544 WWUS83 KDDC 210744 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 244 AM CDT FRI SEP 21 2012 ...EXPECT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... KSZ030-031-211700- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0023.120921T1800Z-120922T0000Z/ TREGO-ELLIS- 244 AM CDT FRI SEP 21 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FOR CENTRAL KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 030 TREGO AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 031 ELLIS. * WINDS...NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS FROM 25 TO 30 MPH. * TIMING...FROM 1 TO 7 PM. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...RISING INTO THE MID 80S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRE WHICH STARTS COULD EASILY SPREAD AND QUICKLY BECOME OUT OF CONTROL. NO OUTDOOR FIRES SHOULD BE CONSIDERED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. 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. && $$ FINCH
1 follow-up statement
094 WWUS83 KDDC 211707 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1207 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 2012 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED... .CONDITIONS FOR LARGE WILDFIRE GROWTH ARE NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ030-031-211815- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.W.0023.120921T1800Z-120922T0000Z/ TREGO-ELLIS- 1207 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR TREGO AND ELLIS COUNTIES. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. $$
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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.