Alert archive / Nebraska / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 53, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this red flag warning at Nov 24, 2012, 2:57 AM MST for 7 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Nov 24, 2012, 9:00 AM MST. 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
- Nov 24, 2012, 2:57 AM MST (09:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 24, 2012, 9:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2012, 4:00 PM MST
- 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 09:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 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
- 2208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
575 WWUS83 KLBF 240957 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 357 AM CST SAT NOV 24 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE DANGERS IN THE EASTERN PANHANDLE TODAY... .A PREFRONTAL TROUGH DEVELOPS SOUTH THROUGH THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE THIS MORNING WITH MUCH DRIER AIR TO SPREAD EAST TODAY. AS TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO RISE THE SURFACE DEWPOINTS THAT ARE IN THE TEENS WILL CREATE RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AT OR BELOW 20 PERCENT BEFORE NOONTIME IN THE WEST. SURFACE WINDS WILL KICK UP ACROSS THE PANHANDLE WITH WINDS AT 15 TO 25 MPH AND GUST AROUND 30 MPH FOR CRITICAL FIRE DANGERS UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON. NEZ204-241800- /O.NEW.KLBF.FW.W.0053.121124T1600Z-121124T2300Z/ EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR- 257 AM MST SAT NOV 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR ZONE 204... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 204 EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RESULT IN THE POTENTIAL FOR RAPID FIRE WEATHER GROWTH...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ANTIOCH IN SHERIDAN COUNTY TO SARBEN IN KEITH COUNTY. 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. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF KECK
2 follow-up statements
205 WWUS83 KLBF 241834 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1234 PM CST SAT NOV 24 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE DANGER ACROSS THE EASTERN PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON... .ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES IN THE 60S...AND DRY CONDITIONS WILL KEEP FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS HEIGHTENED THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. FUELS REMAIN VERY DRY...AND WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY DOWN TO 12 PERCENT COMBINED WITH WINDS GUSTING BETWEEN 20 MPH AND 30 MPH...CRITICAL FIRE DANGER WILL BE IN PLACE THROUGH LATER THIS AFTERNOON. LOCATIONS WITH THE MOST CRITICAL CONDITIONS WILL BE WEST OF A LINE FROM ANTIOCH TO OGALLALA. NEZ204-242300- /O.CON.KLBF.FW.W.0053.000000T0000Z-121124T2300Z/ EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR- 1134 AM MST SAT NOV 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR ZONE 204... * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 204 EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR. PRIMARILY AREAS WEST OF A LINE FROM ANTIOCH TO OGALLALA. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RESULT IN THE POTENTIAL FOR RAPID FIRE WEATHER GROWTH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF BROOKS
633 WWUS83 KLBF 242302 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 502 PM CST SAT NOV 24 2012 NEZ204-250015- /O.EXP.KLBF.FW.W.0053.000000T0000Z-121124T2300Z/ EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR- 402 PM MST SAT NOV 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 4 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR ZONE 204... RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE RISEN TO AROUND 20 PERCENT NEAR SUNSET WITH LIGHT WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE 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.