Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 2, 2012, 1:55 PM CST for 11 counties in Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska; Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 4 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 2, 2012, 1:55 PM CST (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
426 WWUS83 KGLD 021955 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1255 PM MST FRI MAR 2 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN SATURDAY... .FOR THIS AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES OF 15 TO 20 PERCENT WILL BE COMMON ALONG WITH NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTING TO 35 MPH. ON SATURDAY THE COMBINATION OF NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTING TO 40 MPH AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AROUND 20 PERCENT WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS GENERALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. COZ254-KSZ027>029-041-042-030000- /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.W.0009.120302T1955Z-120303T0000Z/ /O.CON.KGLD.FW.A.0005.120303T1800Z-120304T0000Z/ CHEYENNE CO-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- 1255 PM MST FRI MAR 2 2012 /155 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 027...028...029...041...042 AND 254... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 027...028...029...041...042 AND 254... 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 /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...IN COLORADO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 254 CHEYENNE CO. IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 027 WALLACE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 028 LOGAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 029 GOVE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 041 GREELEY AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 042 WICHITA. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 17 PERCENT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. 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. && $$ COZ253-KSZ003-004-013>016-NEZ081-030000- /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.W.0009.120302T1955Z-120303T0000Z/ KIT CARSON-DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM- RED WILLOW- 1255 PM MST FRI MAR 2 2012 /155 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 003...004...013...014...015...016...081 AND 253... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...IN COLORADO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 253 KIT CARSON. IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 003 DECATUR...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 004 NORTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 013 SHERMAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 014 THOMAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 015 SHERIDAN AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 016 GRAHAM. IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 081 RED WILLOW. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 19 PERCENT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
1 follow-up statement
448 WWUS83 KGLD 022355 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 455 PM MST FRI MAR 2 2012 COZ254-KSZ027>029-041-042-030800- /O.EXP.KGLD.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-120303T0000Z/ /O.CON.KGLD.FW.A.0005.120303T1800Z-120304T0000Z/ CHEYENNE CO-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- 455 PM MST FRI MAR 2 2012 /555 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012/ ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 027...028...029...041...042 AND 254... ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 027...028...029...041...042 AND 254... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...IN COLORADO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 254 CHEYENNE CO. IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 027 WALLACE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 028 LOGAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 029 GOVE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 041 GREELEY AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 042 WICHITA. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 18 PERCENT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. && $$ COZ253-KSZ003-004-013>016-NEZ081-030100- /O.EXP.KGLD.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-120303T0000Z/ KIT CARSON-DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM- RED WILLOW- 455 PM MST FRI MAR 2 2012 /555 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 003...004...013...014...015...016...081 AND 253... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS HAVE ENDED ACROSS THE REGION FOR THIS AFTERNOON. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 1:10 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | GLD | Gove, Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 13 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2012Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2012Red Flag Warnings in Nebraska, 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.