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Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Mar 31, 2012, 3:26 PM CDT for 13 counties in Nebraska; 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 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
- Mar 31, 2012, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Polk County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1887 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
623 WWUS83 KGID 312026 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 326 PM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON... KSZ006-007-018-019-NEZ041-048-049-062>064-075>077-084>087-010100- /O.NEW.KGID.FW.W.0013.120331T2026Z-120401T0100Z/ SMITH-JEWELL-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-NANCE-MERRICK-POLK-HALL-HAMILTON- YORK-ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FRANKLIN-WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER- 326 PM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 006...007... 018...019...041...048...049...062...063...064...075...076...077... 084...085...086 AND 087... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 006 SMITH...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 007 JEWELL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 018 OSBORNE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 019 MITCHELL. IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 041 NANCE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 048 MERRICK...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 049 POLK...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 HALL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 063 HAMILTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 064 YORK...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 ADAMS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 076 CLAY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 077 FILLMORE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 FRANKLIN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 WEBSTER...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 086 NUCKOLLS AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 THAYER. * WINDS...SUSTAINED SOUTH WINDS NEAR 20 MILES PER HOUR WITH WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MILES PER HOUR. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...VALUES WILL BE BETWEEN 10 AND 20 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL PROMOTE EXTREME FIRE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION. OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED...AND CAUTION SHOULD BE EXERCISED WHEN CONDUCTING ANY ACTIVITIES WHICH COULD RESULT IN A FIRE. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
725 WWUS83 KGID 010055 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 755 PM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012 KSZ006-007-018-019-NEZ041-048-049-062>064-075>077-084>087-010200- /O.EXP.KGID.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-120401T0100Z/ SMITH-JEWELL-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-NANCE-MERRICK-POLK-HALL-HAMILTON- YORK-ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FRANKLIN-WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER- 755 PM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 006...007... 018...019...041...048...049...062...063...064...075...076...077... 084...085...086 AND 087... WIND SPEEDS HAVE SUBSIDED TO BELOW RED FLAG LIMITS AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS ARE GENERALLY RISING. $$ HEINLEIN
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.