Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 29, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Nov 10, 2012, 9:33 AM CST for 11 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Nov 10, 2012, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 10, 2012, 9:33 AM CST (15:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 10, 2012, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2012, 6:53 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:32 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 11:15 AM CST | NON-TSTM WND GST 63 | Syracuse, KS | VISIBILITY WAS THREE-QUARTERS OF A MILE IN BLOWING DUST. |
| Nov 10, 1:10 PM CST | NON-TSTM WND GST 62 | Ulysses, KS | BLOWING DUST REDUCING VISIBILITY TO ONE MILE AT THE WIND GUST TIME. |
| Nov 10, 1:36 PM CST | NON-TSTM WND GST 58 | 5 Nnw Pierceville, KS | MEASURED AT THE GARDEN CITY AIRPORT. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
352 WWUS83 KDDC 101533 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 933 AM CST SAT NOV 10 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS EXPECTED WITH HIGH WINDS... .HIGH WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE HIGH PLAINS TODAY. THE COMBINED LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND HIGH WINDS WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ043-044-061>063-074>076-084>086-102345- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0029.121110T1700Z-121111T0100Z/ SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON- STEVENS-SEWARD- 933 AM CST SAT NOV 10 2012 /833 AM MST SAT NOV 10 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ THIS EVENING FOR HIGH WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR HIGH WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 043 SCOTT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 044 LANE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 061 HAMILTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 KEARNY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 063 FINNEY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 STANTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 GRANT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 076 HASKELL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 086 SEWARD. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 30 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY BETWEEN NOON AND 6 PM CST. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOWER 70S. * IMPACTS...OPEN FLAMES WILL GROW OUT OF CONTROL QUICKLY DUE TO HIGH WINDS. 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. && $$ UMSCHEID
1 follow-up statement
491 WWUS83 KDDC 110053 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 653 PM CST SAT NOV 10 2012 ...WINDS HAVE WEAKENED AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES INCREASED, SO FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS HAVE LESSENED... .AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTHEAST THROUGH WESTERN KANSAS, THE PRESSURE GRADIENT HAS RELAXED AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES INCREASED. KSZ043-044-061>063-074>076-084>086-110200- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.W.0029.000000T0000Z-121111T0100Z/ SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON- STEVENS-SEWARD- 653 PM CST SAT NOV 10 2012 /553 PM MST SAT NOV 10 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR LOW HUMIDITIES AND STRONG WINDS FOR WESTERN KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE INCREASED AND WINDS HAVE DECREASED, THUS THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ 12
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 9:24 AM CST | High Wind Warning | DDC | Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Lane and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 10, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman | 40 min |
| Nov 10, 5:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Pawnee, Rush | 44 min |
| Nov 10, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ellis, Pawnee, Rush, Stafford | 27 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.