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Red Flag Warning 52, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Sep 16, 2012, 11:33 AM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska; 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 8 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
- Sep 16, 2012, 11:33 AM MDT (17:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2012, 7:58 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 3815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
667 WWUS83 KGLD 161733 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1133 AM MDT SUN SEP 16 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS DEVELOPING... .HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO 5 TO 15 PERCENT AS VERY DRY AIR SPREADS EAST OVER THE AREA. GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL OCCUR IN ADVANCE OF A SURFACE TROUGH THAT WILL SLOWLY MOVE TO THE EAST TODAY. BEHIND THE TROUGH WINDS WILL BE LIGHTER...BUT WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST. COZ252-253-KSZ001-002-013-014-NEZ079>081-170200- /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.W.0052.120916T1733Z-120917T0200Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-SHERMAN-THOMAS-DUNDY- HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1133 AM MDT SUN SEP 16 2012 /1233 PM CDT SUN SEP 16 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT /9 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002...013...014...079...080...081...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 8 PM MDT /9 PM CDT/ 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 002 RAWLINS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 013 SHERMAN AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 014 THOMAS. IN NEBRASKA... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 079 DUNDY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 080 HITCHCOCK AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 081 RED WILLOW. * WINDS...SOUTH 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 8 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH THIS AFTERNOON AS A TROUGH MOVES ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO. BE PREPARED FOR CHANGING WIND DIRECTIONS. 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. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/GLD (ALL LOWER CASE)
1 follow-up statement
384 WWUS83 KGLD 170158 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 758 PM MDT SUN SEP 16 2012 COZ252-253-KSZ001-002-013-014-NEZ079>081-170300- /O.CAN.KGLD.FW.W.0052.000000T0000Z-120917T0200Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-SHERMAN-THOMAS-DUNDY- HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 758 PM MDT SUN SEP 16 2012 /858 PM CDT SUN SEP 16 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002...013...014...079... 080...081...252 AND 253... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES HAVE IMPROVED ACROSS THE AREA AND WILL CONTINUE TO IMPROVE WITH NIGHTTIME COOLING. $$ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 5:15 AM MDT | Dense Fog Advisory | GLD | Red Willow | 5 hr |
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.