Alert archive / Nebraska / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this red flag warning at Jan 28, 2012, 2:19 AM MST for 10 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Jan 28, 2012, 11:00 AM MST. 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
- Jan 28, 2012, 2:19 AM MST (09:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 28, 2012, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 28, 2012, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Chase County, NE, Custer County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Holt County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Loup County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:20 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 1127 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
130 WWUS83 KLBF 280919 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 319 AM CST SAT JAN 28 2012 NEZ210-219-281730- /O.UPG.KLBF.FW.A.0001.120128T1800Z-120129T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KLBF.FW.W.0002.120128T1800Z-120129T0000Z/ FRENCHMAN BASIN-LOESS PLAINS- 319 AM CST SAT JAN 28 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FOR AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA FROM OGALLALA TO SUTHERLAND TO CURTIS AND SOUTH... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 210 FRENCHMAN BASIN AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 219 LOESS PLAINS. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...DRY VEGETATION WILL COMBINE WITH THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS TO PROMOTE EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. 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. && $$ NEZ209-281730- /O.NEW.KLBF.FW.W.0002.120128T1800Z-120129T0000Z/ LOUP RIVERS BASIN- 319 AM CST SAT JAN 28 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR CUSTER COUNTY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 209 LOUP RIVERS BASIN. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 17 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...DRY VEGETATION WILL COMBINE WITH THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS TO PROMOTE EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
2 follow-up statements
239 WWUS83 KLBF 282051 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 251 PM CST SAT JAN 28 2012 NEZ209-210-219-290000- /O.CON.KLBF.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120129T0000Z/ LOUP RIVERS BASIN-FRENCHMAN BASIN-LOESS PLAINS- 251 PM CST SAT JAN 28 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 209 LOUP RIVERS BASIN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 210 FRENCHMAN BASIN...AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 219 LOESS PLAINS. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...DRY VEGETATION WILL COMBINE WITH THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS TO PROMOTE EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. 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. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
739 WWUS83 KLBF 290011 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 611 PM CST SAT JAN 28 2012 NEZ209-210-219-290115- /O.EXP.KLBF.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120129T0000Z/ LOUP RIVERS BASIN-FRENCHMAN BASIN-LOESS PLAINS- 611 PM CST SAT JAN 28 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. TEMPERATURES HAVE COOLED INTO THE MID 30S AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CONTINUE TO RISE. $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
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.