Alert archive / Nebraska / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 51, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this red flag warning at Oct 19, 2012, 2:26 PM MDT for 7 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 20, 2012, 11:00 AM MDT. 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 19, 2012, 2:26 PM MDT (20:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 20, 2012, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 20, 2012, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Arthur County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Keith County, NE, Sheridan County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 2361 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
603 WWUS83 KLBF 192026 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 326 PM CDT FRI OCT 19 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER PATTER EXPECTED THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... .GUSTY SOUTHWEST TO WESTERLY DOWN SLOPING WIND WILL COMBINE WITH DRY CONDITIONS AND ABNORMALLY WARM TEMPERATURES TO CREATE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR LARGE FIRE GROWTH. ALL RANGE FIRES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL UNDER THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS. NEZ204-200430- /O.NEW.KLBF.FW.W.0051.121020T1700Z-121021T0000Z/ EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR- 226 PM MDT FRI OCT 19 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM MDT SATURDAY FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE ZONE 204...EASTERN PANHANDLE INCLUDING CRESCENT LAKE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM MDT SATURDAY. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 204 EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NR. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY AND ALL FIRES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. 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. && $$ JACOBS HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
2 follow-up statements
779 WWUS83 KLBF 200442 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1142 PM CDT FRI OCT 19 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER PATTER EXPECTED THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... .GUSTY SOUTHWEST TO WESTERLY DOWN SLOPING WIND WILL COMBINE WITH DRY CONDITIONS AND ABNORMALLY WARM TEMPERATURES TO CREATE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR LARGE FIRE GROWTH. ALL RANGE FIRES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL UNDER THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS. NEZ204-201245- /O.CON.KLBF.FW.W.0051.121020T1700Z-121021T0000Z/ EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR- 1042 PM MDT FRI OCT 19 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM MDT SATURDAY FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE ZONE 204... EASTERN PANHANDLE INCLUDING CRESCENT LAKE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE... * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 204 EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 20 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY AND ALL FIRES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
725 WWUS83 KLBF 200811 AAA RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 311 AM CDT SAT OCT 20 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON... .LOW PRESSURE WILL DEEPEN ACROSS SOUTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA. THIS WILL DRAW WARM DRY AIR EAST THROUGH THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO DEEPEN SUFFICIENTLY FOR GUSTY WINDS TO REACH 30 MPH. NEZ204-210000- /O.CON.KLBF.FW.W.0051.121020T1700Z-121021T0000Z/ EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR- 211 AM MDT SAT OCT 20 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE ZONE 204...EASTERN PANHANDLE INCLUDING CRESCENT LAKE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE... * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 204 EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR. * WINDS...WEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY AND ALL FIRES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 6:26 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more | 9 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.