Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 9, 2012, 4:21 AM CST for 8 counties in Kansas; Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 9, 2012, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 7 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, 4:21 AM CST (10:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 9, 2012, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2012, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:24 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 3389 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
781 WWUS83 KGLD 091021 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 321 AM MST FRI MAR 9 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED... .A SURFACE TROUGH WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON BRINGING SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH. THE GUSTY WINDS COMBINED WITH AFTERNOON HUMIDITIES FALLING TO AROUND 10 PERCENT WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. KSZ002-003-NEZ079>081-091900- /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.W.0013.120309T1800Z-120310T0100Z/ RAWLINS-DECATUR-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 321 AM MST FRI MAR 9 2012 /421 AM CST FRI MAR 9 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM MST /NOON CST/ THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MST /7 PM CST/ THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 002...003...079... 080 AND 081... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM MST /NOON CST/ THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MST /7 PM CST/ THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 002 RAWLINS AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 003 DECATUR. IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 079 DUNDY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 080 HITCHCOCK AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 081 RED WILLOW. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 12 PERCENT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ JRM
2 follow-up statements
631 WWUS83 KGLD 091811 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1111 AM MST FRI MAR 9 2012 COZ252-253-KSZ001-004-013>016-100100- /O.EXA.KGLD.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-120310T0100Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE KS-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM- 1111 AM MST FRI MAR 9 2012 /1211 PM CST FRI MAR 9 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST /7 PM CST/ THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...004...013...014...015...016...252 AND 253... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST /7 PM CST/ THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN COLORADO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 252 YUMA AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 253 KIT CARSON. IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 001 CHEYENNE KS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 004 NORTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 013 SHERMAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 014 THOMAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 015 SHERIDAN AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 016 GRAHAM. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 11 PERCENT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ KSZ002-003-NEZ079>081-100100- /O.CON.KGLD.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-120310T0100Z/ RAWLINS-DECATUR-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1111 AM MST FRI MAR 9 2012 /1211 PM CST FRI MAR 9 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST /7 PM CST/ THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 002...003...079...080 AND 081... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST /7 PM CST/ THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 002 RAWLINS AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 003 DECATUR. IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 079 DUNDY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 080 HITCHCOCK AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 081 RED WILLOW. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 12 PERCENT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
341 WWUS83 KGLD 100107 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 607 PM MST FRI MAR 9 2012 COZ252-253-KSZ001>004-013>016-NEZ079>081-100215- /O.EXP.KGLD.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-120310T0100Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS- SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 607 PM MST FRI MAR 9 2012 /707 PM CST FRI MAR 9 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002...003...004...013... 014...015...016...079...080...081...252 AND 253... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. $$
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2012Red Flag Warnings in Nebraska, 2012Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2012Every red flag warning in 2012
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.