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Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 13, 2012, 1:52 PM MDT for 5 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at Apr 14, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT. 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
- Apr 13, 2012, 1:52 PM MDT (19:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 14, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2012, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
074 WWUS83 KGLD 131952 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 152 PM MDT FRI APR 13 2012 .A STRONG WEATHER SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE AREA SATURDAY PRODUCING GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. WHEN COMBINED WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP BY MIDDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. COZ253-254-KSZ013-027-028-041-042-140400- /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.W.0023.120414T1800Z-120415T0100Z/ KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-SHERMAN-WALLACE-LOGAN-GREELEY-WICHITA- 152 PM MDT FRI APR 13 2012 /252 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON MDT /1 PM CDT/ TO 7 PM MDT /8 PM CDT/ SATURDAY FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 013...027...028...041...042...253 AND 254... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON MDT /1 PM CDT/ TO 7 PM MDT /8 PM CDT/ SATURDAY. * AFFECTED AREA...IN COLORADO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 253 KIT CARSON AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 254 CHEYENNE CO. IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 013 SHERMAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 027 WALLACE... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 028 LOGAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 041 GREELEY AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 042 WICHITA. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES WHICH START HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXPLOSIVE GROWTH...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. 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. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/GLD (ALL LOWER CASE)
3 follow-up statements
419 WWUS83 KGLD 140254 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 854 PM MDT FRI APR 13 2012 .A STRONG WEATHER SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE AREA SATURDAY PRODUCING GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. WHEN COMBINED WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP BY MIDDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. COZ253-254-KSZ013-027-028-041-042-141200- /O.CON.KGLD.FW.W.0023.120414T1800Z-120415T0100Z/ KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-SHERMAN-WALLACE-LOGAN-GREELEY-WICHITA- 854 PM MDT FRI APR 13 2012 /954 PM CDT FRI APR 13 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON MDT /1 PM CDT/ TO 7 PM MDT /8 PM CDT/ SATURDAY FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 013...027...028...041...042...253 AND 254... * AFFECTED AREA...IN COLORADO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 253 KIT CARSON AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 254 CHEYENNE CO. IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 013 SHERMAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 027 WALLACE... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 028 LOGAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 041 GREELEY AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 042 WICHITA. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES WHICH START HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXPLOSIVE GROWTH...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/GLD (ALL LOWER CASE)
329 WWUS83 KGLD 140931 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 331 AM MDT SAT APR 14 2012 COZ253-254-KSZ013-027-028-041-042-150100- /O.CON.KGLD.FW.W.0023.120414T1800Z-120415T0100Z/ KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-SHERMAN-WALLACE-LOGAN-GREELEY-WICHITA- 331 AM MDT SAT APR 14 2012 /431 AM CDT SAT APR 14 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON MDT /1 PM CDT/ TODAY TO 7 PM MDT /8 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 013...027...028...041...042... 253 AND 254... * AFFECTED AREA...IN COLORADO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 253 KIT CARSON AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 254 CHEYENNE CO. IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 013 SHERMAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 027 WALLACE... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 028 LOGAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 041 GREELEY AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 042 WICHITA. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES WHICH START HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXPLOSIVE GROWTH...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. 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. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/GLD (ALL LOWER CASE)
542 WWUS83 KGLD 150059 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 659 PM MDT SAT APR 14 2012 COZ253-254-KSZ013-027-028-041-042-150200- /O.EXP.KGLD.FW.W.0023.000000T0000Z-120415T0100Z/ KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-SHERMAN-WALLACE-LOGAN-GREELEY-WICHITA- 659 PM MDT SAT APR 14 2012 /759 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT /8 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 013... 027...028...041...042...253 AND 254... RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES HAVE IMPROVED TO ABOVE RED FLAG CRITERIA FOR MOST OF THE AREA...AND WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGH THE EVENING...SO THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/GLD (ALL LOWER CASE)
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 46 min |
| Apr 12, 7:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 31 min |
| Apr 12, 7:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 54 min |
| Apr 12, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 20 min |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 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.