Alert archive / Missouri / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this red flag warning at Jan 30, 2012, 3:27 AM CST for 27 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jan 30, 2012, 12:00 PM CST. 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
- Jan 30, 2012, 3:27 AM CST (09:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 30, 2012, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
All 34 counties
Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:28 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 2979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
980 WWUS83 KEAX 300927 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 327 AM CST MON JAN 30 2012 ...HIGH FIRE DANGER TODAY... .NEAR-RECORD WARMTH WILL COMBINE WITH LOW HUMIDITY...DRY VEGETATION AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS TO CREATE CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS TODAY. KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>005-011>015-020>023-028>031-037>039- 043>046-053-054-310000- /O.UPG.KEAX.FW.A.0001.120130T1800Z-120131T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KEAX.FW.W.0001.120130T1800Z-120131T0000Z/ ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-HOLT-ANDREW- DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON- PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-CARROLL-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-CASS-JOHNSON MO- PETTIS-COOPER-BATES-HENRY- 327 AM CST MON JAN 30 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002...003...004...005...011...012...013...014...015...020... 021...022...023...025...028...029...030...031...037...038...039... 043...044...045...046...053...054...057...060...102...103...104 AND 105... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 025...057... 060...102...103...104 AND 105. IN MISSOURI...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002...003...004...005...011...012...013...014... 015... 020...021...022...023...028...029...030...031...037... 038... 039...043...044...045...046...053 AND 054. THIS INCLUDES AREAS GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM CHILLICOTHE TO MARSHALL TO BOONVILLE. * WIND...SUSTAINED SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS POSSIBLY EXCEEDING 30 MPH. * HUMIDITY...TEMPERATURES IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 60S WILL ALLOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES TO FALL TO BETWEEN 20 AND 25 PERCENT...WITH EVEN LOWER VALUES POSSIBLE IN SOME AREAS. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP COULD SPREAD RAPIDLY... ESPECIALLY AROUND DORMANT GRASSLAND. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. 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. && $$ HAWBLITZEL
1 follow-up statement
889 WWUS83 KEAX 302342 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 542 PM CST MON JAN 30 2012 ...HIGH FIRE DANGER WILL END EARLY THIS EVENING... KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>005-011>015-020>023-028>031-037>039- 043>046-053-054-310045- /O.EXP.KEAX.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120131T0000Z/ ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-HOLT-ANDREW- DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON- PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-CARROLL-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-CASS-JOHNSON MO- PETTIS-COOPER-BATES-HENRY- 542 PM CST MON JAN 30 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002... 003...004...005...011...012...013...014...015...020... 021... 022...023...025...028...029...030...031...037...038...039... 043...044...045...046...053...054...057...060...102...103... 104 AND 105... WEAKENING SURFACE WINDS AND INCREASING RELATIVE HUMIDITIES EXPECTED FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT. THESE IMPROVING CONDITIONS WILL END THE HIGH FIRE DANGER THREAT. $$ MJ
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.