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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Feb 27, 2012, 1:37 PM MST for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 3 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
- Feb 27, 2012, 1:37 PM MST (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2012, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
204 WWUS83 KGLD 272037 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 137 PM MST MON FEB 27 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS FAR EASTERN COLORADO FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY... .STRONG SOUTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH WILL COMBINE WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT TO PRODUCE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. COZ252-253-280000- /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.W.0006.120227T2037Z-120228T0000Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON- 137 PM MST MON FEB 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 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 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...IN COLORADO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 252 YUMA AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 253 KIT CARSON. * WINDS...SOUTH 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
452 WWUS83 KGLD 272356 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 456 PM MST MON FEB 27 2012 COZ252-253-280100- /O.EXP.KGLD.FW.W.0006.000000T0000Z-120228T0000Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON- 456 PM MST MON FEB 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 252 AND 253... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. HUMIDITIES HAVE BEGUN TO REBOUND ACROSS THE WARNING AREA AND ARE AROUND 40 PERCENT IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS. THE VALUES WILL CONTINUE TO CLIMB THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS...BRINGING AN END TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY THROUGH THE NIGHT OUT OF THE SOUTHEAST. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 1:35 PM MST | Wind Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 5 hr |
| Feb 27, 2:41 PM MST | Wind Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 20 hr |
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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.