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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Hastings, NE

March 2, 20124 counties in Kansas; Franklin County, Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Mar 2, 2012, 1:59 PM CST for 4 counties in Kansas; Franklin County, Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska. 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 2, 2012, 1:59 PM CST (19:59 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2012, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 186 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1451 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

049 
WWUS83 KGID 021959
RFWGID

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
159 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY THIS
EVENING...

.THE COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW VALUES OF RELATIVE
HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS WILL PROMOTE AN EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH
POTENTIAL THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO EARLY
THIS EVENING.

KSZ005-006-017-018-NEZ082>084-030100-
/O.NEW.KGID.FW.W.0005.120302T1959Z-120303T0100Z/
PHILLIPS-SMITH-ROOKS-OSBORNE-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN-
159 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR
WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 005...006...
017...018...082...083 AND 084...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 7 PM CST 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. IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 082
FURNAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 083 HARLAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084
FRANKLIN.

* WIND...FROM THE NORTHWEST AT 20 TO 25 MPH...GUSTING TO AROUND 30
  MPH.

* HUMIDITY...RANGING FROM 10 TO 20 PERCENT.

* IMPACTS...THE DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON WILL
  PROMOTE DANGEROUS FIRE BEHAVIOR. OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE
  AVOIDED...AND CAUTION SHOULD BE EXERCISED WHEN CONDUCTING ANY
  ACTIVITIES WHILE 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.

&&

$$

BRYANT

1 follow-up statement

382 
WWUS83 KGID 030052
RFWGID

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
652 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

KSZ005-006-017-018-NEZ082>084-030200-
/O.EXP.KGID.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-120303T0100Z/
PHILLIPS-SMITH-ROOKS-OSBORNE-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN-
652 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR FIRE 
WEATHER ZONES 005...006...017...018...082...083 AND 084...

GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE BEGUN TO SUBSIDE ACROSS THE WARNED
AREA AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE INCREASED DURING THE EARLY
EVENING HOURS. THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT
7 PM CST THIS EVENING.

$$

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.