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Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Springfield, MO

July 29, 20128 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this red flag warning at Jul 29, 2012, 12:45 PM CDT for 8 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. 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
Jul 29, 2012, 12:45 PM CDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:44 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2012-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 235 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2012-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
235 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-252 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

968 
WWUS83 KSGF 291745
RFWSGF

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1245 PM CDT SUN JUL 29 2012

...DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON...

.EXTREMELY WARM TEMPERATURES...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY
VALUES...GUSTY WINDS...AND DROUGHT CONDITIONS WILL COMBINE TO
CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON OVER FAR
SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. FIRES WILL
BE EXTREMELY FAST TO IGNITE IN THESE CONDITIONS...AND CAN EXPECTED
TO EXHIBIT EXPLOSIVE GROWTH...QUICKLY ESCAPING CONTROL.

KSZ097-101-MOZ077-078-088-089-093-094-101-102-300100-
/O.NEW.KSGF.FW.W.0008.120729T1745Z-120730T0100Z/
CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BARTON-CEDAR-JASPER-DADE-NEWTON-LAWRENCE-
MCDONALD-BARRY-
1245 PM CDT SUN JUL 29 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR FAR
SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING FOR FAR SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS...WHICH
IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING.

* AFFECTED AREA...SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN
  KANSAS ALONG AND WEST OF A STOCKTON TO CASSVILLE LINE.

* WINDS...SOUTHWEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 25 MPH.

* TIMING...THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. 

* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT.

* TEMPERATURES...98 TO 106.

* IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF EXTREMELY DRY FUELS...VERY LOW
  RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...HOT TEMPERATURES...AND GUSTY
  SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL RESULT IN VERY DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER
  CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. FIRES WILL BE EXTREMELY FAST TO
  IGNITE IN THESE CONDITIONS...AND CAN BE EXPECTED TO GROW IN AN
  EXPLOSIVE MANNER.  

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.

&&

$$

BOXELL
1 follow-up statement
890 
WWUS83 KSGF 300058
RFWSGF

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
758 PM CDT SUN JUL 29 2012


KSZ097-101-MOZ077-078-088-089-093-094-101-102-300200-
/O.EXP.KSGF.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-120730T0100Z/
CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BARTON-CEDAR-JASPER-DADE-NEWTON-LAWRENCE-
MCDONALD-BARRY-
758 PM CDT SUN JUL 29 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING 
FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...

WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED OVER THE REGION AND THE RED FLAG WARNING
WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...BECAUSE OF DROUGHT
CONDITIONS AND DRY VEGETATION...AN ELEVATED RISK FOR WILDFIRES
WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN ON
MONDAY WITH A CONTINUED RISK FOR FAST SPREADING WILDFIRES.


$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLaclede, Wright35 min
Jul 29, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFTexas33 min
Jul 29, 4:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFWright31 min
Jul 29, 4:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFTexas35 min
Jul 29, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFTexas, Wright39 min
Jul 29, 5:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFWright31 min
Jul 29, 6:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFPulaski37 min

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Missouri, 2012Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2012Every red flag warning in 2012

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.