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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Feb 29, 2012, 12:12 PM CST for 6 counties in Kansas. 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
- Feb 29, 2012, 12:12 PM CST (18:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Ellis County, KS, Lane County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 2522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
342 WWUS83 KDDC 291812 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1212 PM CST WED FEB 29 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE PRESENT THIS AFTERNOON... .GUSTY STRONG WINDS AND A VERY DRY AIRMASS TOGETHER HAVE CAUSED RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO PLUMMET ACROSS THE WARNED AREA TO 10-15 PERCENT. THE COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE DANGER. KSZ030-031-044>046-065-010000- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0006.120229T1812Z-120301T0000Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-LANE-NESS-RUSH-PAWNEE- 1212 PM CST WED FEB 29 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FOR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 030 TREGO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 031 ELLIS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 044 LANE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 045 NESS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 046 RUSH AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 065 PAWNEE. * WINDS...WEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * TIMING...WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH 6PM. GUSTY WINDS WILL DECREASE BY LATE AFTERNOON. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 50S. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR RAPID FIRE GROWTH. VEGETATION IS FULLY CURED AND WILL BURN EASILY. OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE POSTPONED UNTIL CONDITIONS IMPROVE. 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. && $$ BILLINGS
1 follow-up statement
450 WWUS83 KDDC 010006 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 606 PM CST WED FEB 29 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE DIMINISHING... KSZ030-031-044>046-065-010115- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0006.000000T0000Z-120301T0000Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-LANE-NESS-RUSH-PAWNEE- 606 PM CST WED FEB 29 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. WINDS HAVE DECREASED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS WHICH IS DIMINISHING THE THREAT FOR WILDFIRES. $$ GERARD
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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.