Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 21, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Jul 24, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska. It took effect at Jul 24, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Jul 24, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT (09:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 24, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2012, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:04 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 3792 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
292 WWUS83 KGID 240900 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 400 AM CDT TUE JUL 24 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE DANGER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... .THE COMBINATION OF VERY HOT TEMPERATURES...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...GUSTY SOUTH WINDS AND DRY VEGETATION WILL PROMOTE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR AREAS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CAMBRIDGE NEBRASKA TO BELOIT KANSAS. KSZ005-006-017>019-NEZ082-083-241700- /O.NEW.KGID.FW.W.0021.120724T1700Z-120725T0200Z/ PHILLIPS-SMITH-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-FURNAS-HARLAN- 400 AM CDT TUE JUL 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 005...006...017...018...019...082 AND 083... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 005 PHILLIPS... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 006 SMITH...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 017 ROOKS... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 018 OSBORNE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 019 MITCHELL. IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 082 FURNAS AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 083 HARLAN. * WINDS...FROM THE SOUTH AT 15 TO 20 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH. SLIGHTLY HIGHER GUST POTENTIAL TO AROUND 30 MPH WILL EXIST MAINLY IN ROOKS...OSBORNE AND MITCHELL COUNTIES. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...FALLING TO BETWEEN 15 AND 20 PERCENT FOR SEVERAL HOURS. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...GUSTY SOUTH WINDS...AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL PROMOTE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH TODAY. UNDER THESE CONDITIONS...OPEN FIRES COULD ESCAPE CONTROL VERY QUICKLY. 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. && $$ PFANNKUCH
2 follow-up statements
068 WWUS83 KGID 241638 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1138 AM CDT TUE JUL 24 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE DANGER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... .THE COMBINATION OF VERY HOT TEMPERATURES...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...GUSTY SOUTH WINDS AND DRY VEGETATION WILL PROMOTE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR AREAS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CAMBRIDGE NEBRASKA TO BELOIT KANSAS. KSZ005-006-017>019-NEZ082-083-250200- /O.CON.KGID.FW.W.0021.120724T1700Z-120725T0200Z/ PHILLIPS-SMITH-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-FURNAS-HARLAN- 1138 AM CDT TUE JUL 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 005... 006...017...018...019...082 AND 083... * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 005 PHILLIPS... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 006 SMITH...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 017 ROOKS... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 018 OSBORNE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 019 MITCHELL. IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 082 FURNAS AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 083 HARLAN. * WINDS...FROM THE SOUTH AT 15 TO 20 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH. SLIGHTLY HIGHER GUST POTENTIAL TO AROUND 30 MPH WILL EXIST MAINLY IN ROOKS...OSBORNE AND MITCHELL COUNTIES. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...FALLING TO BETWEEN 15 AND 20 PERCENT FOR SEVERAL HOURS. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...GUSTY SOUTH WINDS... AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL PROMOTE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH TODAY. UNDER THESE CONDITIONS...OPEN FIRES COULD ESCAPE CONTROL VERY QUICKLY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ GUERRERO
305 WWUS83 KGID 250148 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 848 PM CDT TUE JUL 24 2012 KSZ005-006-017>019-NEZ082-083-250300- /O.EXP.KGID.FW.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120725T0200Z/ PHILLIPS-SMITH-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-FURNAS-HARLAN- 848 PM CDT TUE JUL 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 005...006... 017...018...019...082 AND 083... RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL INCREASE TONIGHT AS TEMPERATURES COOL...WHILE WINDS REMAIN STEADY FROM A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION. DUE TO THE INCREASED HUMIDITY TONIGHT...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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.