Alert archive / Nebraska / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 49, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this red flag warning at Oct 8, 2012, 4:01 AM CDT for 14 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 8, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Oct 8, 2012, 4:01 AM CDT (09:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 8, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Rock County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:03 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 2445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
852 WWUS83 KLBF 080901 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 401 AM CDT MON OCT 8 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE DANGER LIKELY IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON... .LOW PRESSURE WILL DRIFT ACROSS THE DAKOTAS TODAY...RESULTING IN GUSTY WESTERLY WINDS ACROSS CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE DANGER THIS AFTERNOON IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. NEZ209-090000- /O.NEW.KLBF.FW.W.0049.121008T1700Z-121009T0000Z/ LOUP RIVERS BASIN- 401 AM CDT MON OCT 8 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... 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 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 209 LOUP RIVERS BASIN. * WINDS...WEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 18 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES WHICH DEVELOP WILL SPREAD RAPIDLY AND EXHIBIT 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. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
2 follow-up statements
737 WWUS83 KLBF 081728 AAA RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1228 PM CDT MON OCT 8 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE DANGER LIKELY IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON... .LOW PRESSURE WILL DRIFT ACROSS THE DAKOTAS TODAY...RESULTING IN GUSTY WESTERLY WINDS ACROSS CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE DANGER THIS AFTERNOON IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. NEZ206-090000- /O.EXA.KLBF.FW.W.0049.000000T0000Z-121009T0000Z/ SANDHILLS/VALENTINE NWR/NEBRASKA NATIONAL FOREST/ SAMUEL R MCKELVIE NATIONAL FOREST- 1228 PM CDT MON OCT 8 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE CENTRAL SANDHILLS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 206 SANDHILLS/VALENTINE NWR/NEBRASKA NATIONAL FOREST/ SAMUEL R MCKELVIE NATIONAL FOREST. * WINDS...WEST AND NORTHWEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 12 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES WHICH DEVELOP WILL SPREAD RAPIDLY AND EXHIBIT EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ NEZ209-090000- /O.CON.KLBF.FW.W.0049.000000T0000Z-121009T0000Z/ LOUP RIVERS BASIN- 1228 PM CDT MON OCT 8 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 209 LOUP RIVERS BASIN. * WINDS...WEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 16 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES WHICH DEVELOP WILL SPREAD RAPIDLY AND EXHIBIT 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. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
932 WWUS83 KLBF 090009 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 709 PM CDT MON OCT 8 2012 NEZ206-209-090115- /O.EXP.KLBF.FW.W.0049.000000T0000Z-121009T0000Z/ SANDHILLS/VALENTINE NWR/NEBRASKA NATIONAL FOREST/ SAMUEL R MCKELVIE NATIONAL FOREST-LOUP RIVERS BASIN- 709 PM CDT MON OCT 8 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY ... RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE IMPROVED AND WINDS HAVE ALSO DIMINISH ACROSS THE AREA. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
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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.