Alert archive / Illinois / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Lincoln, IL
NWS Lincoln, IL issued this red flag warning at Mar 6, 2012, 12:43 PM CST for 9 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 5 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 6, 2012, 12:43 PM CST (18:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lincoln, IL
Counties Cass County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Knox County, IL, Mason County, IL, Menard County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1856 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 759 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 862 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
140 WWUS83 KILX 061843 RFWILX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 1243 PM CST TUE MAR 6 2012 ...WINDY AND DRY CONDITIONS RESULTING IN HEIGHTENED FIRE DANGER THIS AFTERNOON... ILZ027-036-040-041-047>051-070000- /O.NEW.KILX.FW.W.0001.120306T1843Z-120307T0000Z/ KNOX-FULTON-SCHUYLER-MASON-CASS-MENARD-SCOTT-MORGAN-SANGAMON- 1243 PM CST TUE MAR 6 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR AREAS WEST OF A GALESBURG TO SPRINGFIELD LINE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...CASS...FULTON... KNOX...MASON...MENARD...MORGAN...SANGAMON...SCHUYLER...AND SCOTT. * WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AFTERNOON HUMIDITY WILL FALL TO AROUND 20 TO 25 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. * IMPACTS...BURNING ACTIVITIES CAN QUICKLY GET OUT OF CONTROL IN THESE CONDITIONS. ANY WILDFIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL SPREAD QUICKLY. 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. PLANNED OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE SUSPENDED UNTIL WINDS DECREASE. && $$ GEELHART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 3:55 AM CST | Wind Advisory | ILX | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 21 more | 14 hr |
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.