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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Wichita, KS

December 12, 20125 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this red flag warning at Dec 12, 2012, 4:02 AM CST for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 12, 2012, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 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: Dec 12, 2012, 4:02 AM CST (10:02 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 12, 2012, 11:00 AM CST
Expired: Dec 12, 2012, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:01 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 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2149 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

250 
WWUS83 KICT 121002
RFWICT

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
402 AM CST WED DEC 12 2012

...STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL ELEVATE GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER
WEDNESDAY...

KSZ049-051-067-068-121115-
/O.CAN.KICT.FW.A.0008.121212T1700Z-121212T2300Z/
SALINE-MCPHERSON-RENO-HARVEY-
402 AM CST WED DEC 12 2012

...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE
DANGER FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 049...051...067 AND 068...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE
WEATHER WATCH.


$$

KSZ032-033-047-048-050-122300-
/O.UPG.KICT.FW.A.0008.121212T1700Z-121212T2300Z/
/O.NEW.KICT.FW.W.0016.121212T1700Z-121212T2300Z/
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-
402 AM CST WED DEC 12 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST
THIS AFTERNOON FOR EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER FOR FIRE WEATHER
ZONES 032...033...047...048 AND 050...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING FOR EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER...WHICH IS IN EFFECT
FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. THE FIRE
WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

* EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER...IS FORECAST.

* WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH.

* TIMING...THE STRONGEST WINDS AND HIGHEST GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER
  WILL BE IN THE MID AFTERNOON.

* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT.

* IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY 
  AND BECOME VERY DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT 
  RECOMMENDED.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF
STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES
WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE
FIELD OF THIS FIRE WEATHER PRODUCT.

&&

$$

BILLINGS

1 follow-up statement

821 
WWUS83 KICT 122254
RFWICT

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
454 PM CST WED DEC 12 2012


KSZ032-033-047-048-050-130000-
/O.EXP.KICT.FW.W.0016.000000T0000Z-121212T2300Z/
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-
454 PM CST WED DEC 12 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR
EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 032...033...
047...048 AND 050...

THE EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER WILL SUBSIDE AS TEMPERATURES
COOL AROUND SUNSET. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED
TO EXPIRE AT 5 PM. THE GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL KEEP THE
WILDFIRE DANGER IN THE VERY HIGH CATEGORY FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INTO EARLY EVENING.

$$

Nearby

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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.