Alert archive / Missouri / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Springfield, MO
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede, Wright | 35 min |
| Jul 29, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 33 min |
| Jul 29, 4:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Wright | 31 min |
| Jul 29, 4:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Texas | 35 min |
| Jul 29, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas, Wright | 39 min |
| Jul 29, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Wright | 31 min |
| Jul 29, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Pulaski | 37 min |
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.