Alert archive / Montana / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Great Falls, MT
NWS Great Falls, MT issued this red flag warning at Mar 10, 2012, 12:06 PM MST for 11 counties in Montana. It was in force for 8 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
- Mar 10, 2012, 12:06 PM MST (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2012, 8:00 PM MST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Great Falls, MT
Counties Cascade County, MT, Chouteau County, MT, Fergus County, MT, Glacier County, MT, Judith Basin County, MT, Lewis and Clark County, MT, Liberty County, MT, Meagher County, MT, Pondera County, MT, Teton County, MT, Toole County, MT
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 3125 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
537 WWUS85 KTFX 101906 RFWTFX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 1206 PM MST SAT MAR 10 2012 MTZ112-110300- /O.NEW.KTFX.FW.W.0003.120310T1906Z-120311T0300Z/ EASTERN GLACIER/TOOLE/CENTRAL AND EASTERN PONDERA/LIBERTY COUNTIES- 1206 PM MST SAT MAR 10 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 112... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREAT FALLS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 112. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...15 TO 25 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THIS WARNING IS PRIMARILY FOR GRASSLAND AREAS FREE OF SNOW COVER. THE COMBINATION OF FORECAST CONDITIONS AND DRY FUEL MAY RESULT IN QUICKLY SPREADING GRASS FIRES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THESE AREAS OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/GREATFALLS
2 follow-up statements
596 WWUS85 KTFX 102239 RFWTFX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 339 PM MST SAT MAR 10 2012 MTZ114-115-117-110300- /O.EXA.KTFX.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120311T0300Z/ LEWIS AND CLARK NATIONAL FOREST ROCKY MOUNTAIN DISTRICT/ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT-CHOUTEAU AND FERGUS COUNTIES- CENTRAL AND EASTERN LEWIS AND CLARK NATIONAL FOREST AREAS- 339 PM MST SAT MAR 10 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 114...115 AND 117... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREAT FALLS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 114...115 AND 117. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 12 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THIS WARNING IS PRIMARILY FOR GRASSLAND AREAS FREE OF SNOW COVER. THE COMBINATION OF FORECAST CONDITIONS AND DRY FUEL MAY RESULT IN QUICKLY SPREADING GRASS FIRES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THESE AREAS OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. && $$ MTZ112-110300- /O.CON.KTFX.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120311T0300Z/ EASTERN GLACIER/TOOLE/CENTRAL AND EASTERN PONDERA/LIBERTY COUNTIES- 339 PM MST SAT MAR 10 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 112... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 112. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THIS WARNING IS PRIMARILY FOR GRASSLAND AREAS FREE OF SNOW COVER. THE COMBINATION OF FORECAST CONDITIONS AND DRY FUEL MAY RESULT IN QUICKLY SPREADING GRASS FIRES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THESE AREAS OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/GREATFALLS
664 WWUS85 KTFX 110250 RFWTFX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 750 PM MST SAT MAR 10 2012 MTZ112-114-115-117-110400- /O.EXP.KTFX.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120311T0300Z/ EASTERN GLACIER/TOOLE/CENTRAL AND EASTERN PONDERA/LIBERTY COUNTIES- LEWIS AND CLARK NATIONAL FOREST ROCKY MOUNTAIN DISTRICT/ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT-CHOUTEAU AND FERGUS COUNTIES- CENTRAL AND EASTERN LEWIS AND CLARK NATIONAL FOREST AREAS- 750 PM MST SAT MAR 10 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 114...115 AND 117... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM MST THIS EVENING. WINDS HAVE DECREASED THIS EVENING AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE RECOVERING WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING AND INCREASING CLOUDS THUS ALLOWING THE RED FLAG WARNING TO EXPIRE. $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/GREATFALLS
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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.