Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this red flag warning at Feb 25, 2012, 3:03 AM CST for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 25, 2012, 12:00 PM 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
- Feb 25, 2012, 3:03 AM CST (09:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2012, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:00 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 3222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
783 WWUS83 KICT 250903 RFWICT URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 303 AM CST SAT FEB 25 2012 KSZ032-033-047-048-050-067-082-260000- /O.NEW.KICT.FW.W.0002.120225T1800Z-120226T0000Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-RENO-KINGMAN- 303 AM CST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 032...033...047...048...050...067 AND 082... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...VERY STRONG SOUTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED FOR THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA. THE COMBINATION OF STRONG SOUTH WINDS AND DRY AIR WILL ELEVATED THE GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER INTO THE EXTREME CATEGORY. * EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER...IS FORECAST. * WINDS...SOUTH 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 26 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. && $$ JAKUB
1 follow-up statement
834 WWUS83 KICT 260000 RFWICT URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 600 PM CST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST... KSZ032-033-047-048-050-067-082-260100- /O.EXP.KICT.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120226T0000Z/ RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-RICE-RENO-KINGMAN- 600 PM CST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 032...033... 047...048...050...067 AND 082... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. HOWEVER! GUSTY 25 TO 35 MPH WINDS WILL COMBINE WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AROUND 20 PERCENT TO PRODUCE A VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER... ESPECIALLY ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 14...THIS EVENING. SO ALTHOUGH THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED...RANGELAND BURNING IS STILL GREATLY DISCOURAGED. $$ ES
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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.