Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 24, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Sep 24, 2012, 5:00 AM CDT for Barber County, Comanche County, Kansas. It took effect at Sep 24, 2012, 2:00 PM CDT. 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
- Sep 24, 2012, 5:00 AM CDT (10:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 24, 2012, 2:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2012, 5:37 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 2111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
484 WWUS83 KDDC 241000 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 500 AM CDT MON SEP 24 2012 ...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR IS POSSIBLE NEAR THE OKLAHOMA BORDER THIS AFTERNOON... .A WARM FRONT WILL LIFT NORTH INTO CENTRAL KANSAS BY AFTERNOON, AND STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP IN THE WARM SECTOR NEAR THE OKLAHOMA BORDER. VERY WARM TEMPERATURES, STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FAVOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. KSZ089-090-242000- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0024.120924T1900Z-120925T0000Z/ COMANCHE-BARBER- 500 AM CDT MON SEP 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND STRONG WINDS IN COMANCHE AND BARBER COUNTIES... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND STRONG WINDS WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 089 COMANCHE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 090 BARBER. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...FROM 2 PM UNTIL 7 PM THIS AFTERNOON. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOW TO MID 90S. * IMPACTS...EXTENDED DRY WEATHER HAS REDUCED MOISTURE CONTENT OF HEAVY FUELS SUCH THAT THEY WILL BURN EASILY, AND MOST GRASSES WILL BURN VERY ACTIVELY. ANY FIRE THAT STARTS WILL SPREAD RAPIDLY AND MAY BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
411 WWUS83 KDDC 241958 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 258 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2012 ...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR IS POSSIBLE NEAR THE OKLAHOMA BORDER THIS AFTERNOON... .AS A WARM FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHWARD THROUGH SOUTHERN KANSAS...WARMER AND DRIER AIR WILL ADVANCE NORTH OF THE OKLAHOMA BORDER. GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE HAZARDOUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. KSZ089-090-250000- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0024.000000T0000Z-120925T0000Z/ COMANCHE-BARBER- 258 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS FOR BARBER AND COMANCE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 089 COMANCHE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 090 BARBER. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * TIMING...FROM NOW UNTIL 7 PM THIS AFTERNOON. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOWER 90S. * IMPACTS...EXTENDED DRY WEATHER HAS REDUCED MOISTURE CONTENT OF HEAVY FUELS SUCH THAT THEY WILL BURN EASILY...AND MOST GRASSES WILL BURN VERY ACTIVELY. ANY FIRE THAT STARTS WILL SPREAD RAPIDLY AND MAY BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ 12
400 WWUS83 KDDC 242237 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 537 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS HAVE DECREASED... .ALTHOUGH GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 25 MPH CONTINUE, RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS ARE REMAINING WELL ABOVE 15 PERCENT...AND OUT OF RED FLAG CRITERIA. KSZ089-090-242345- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.W.0024.000000T0000Z-120925T0000Z/ COMANCHE-BARBER- 537 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS FOR BARBER AND COMANCHE COUNTIES... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. ALTHOUGH GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING, RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL REMAIN WELL ABOVE 15 PERCENT. THEREFORE, THE RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELED. $$ 32
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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.