Alert archive / Nebraska / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Mar 9, 2012, 9:33 AM CST for 17 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 9, 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
- Mar 9, 2012, 9:33 AM CST (15:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 9, 2012, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:32 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
877 WWUS83 KGID 091533 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 933 AM CST FRI MAR 9 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... .THE COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS...ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL PROMOTE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH THIS AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE THIS EVENING. NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>074-082-083-100000- /O.NEW.KGID.FW.W.0008.120309T1800Z-120310T0000Z/ VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO- HALL-HAMILTON-YORK-GOSPER-PHELPS-KEARNEY-FURNAS-HARLAN- 933 AM CST FRI MAR 9 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 039...040... 041...046...047...048...049...060...061...062...063...064...072... 073...074...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 UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 039 VALLEY... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 040 GREELEY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 041 NANCE... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 046 SHERMAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 047 HOWARD... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 048 MERRICK...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 049 POLK... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 060 DAWSON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 061 BUFFALO... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 HALL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 063 HAMILTON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 064 YORK...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 072 GOSPER... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 073 PHELPS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 KEARNEY... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 082 FURNAS AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 083 HARLAN. * WINDS...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 15 TO 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS NEAR 25 TO 30 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...THE COMBINATION OF HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 60S AND LOW DEWPOINTS WILL RESULT IN RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES IN THE 12 TO 20 PERCENT RANGE. * IMPACTS...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 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. && $$ ADO
1 follow-up statement
435 WWUS83 KGID 092356 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 556 PM CST FRI MAR 9 2012 NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>074-082-083-100100- /O.EXP.KGID.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-120310T0000Z/ VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO- HALL-HAMILTON-YORK-GOSPER-PHELPS-KEARNEY-FURNAS-HARLAN- 556 PM CST FRI MAR 9 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 039...040... 041...046...047...048...049...060...061...062...063...064...072... 073...074...082 AND 083... ATHOUGH SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL BE STEADY TONIGHT...WIND SPEEDS WILL DIMINISH SOME THIS EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL INCREASE THIS EVENING AS TEMPERATURES COOL...THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM. $$
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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.