Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Jan 2, 2012, 1:38 PM CST for 8 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 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
- Jan 2, 2012, 1:38 PM CST (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2012, 5:34 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
607 WWUS83 KTOP 021938 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 138 PM CST MON JAN 2 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR A COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... KSZ038>040-054>056-058-059-030000- /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0001.120102T1938Z-120103T0000Z/ WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 138 PM CST MON JAN 2 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ACROSS PORTION OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...AREA ALONG AND SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM EMPORIA TO ESKRIDGE TO TOPEKA TO LAWRENCE. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID TO UPPER 30S. * IMPACTS...DRY FUELS...STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL LEAD TO RED FLAG CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
1 follow-up statement
835 WWUS83 KTOP 022334 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 534 PM CST MON JAN 2 2012 KSZ038>040-054>056-058-059-030045- /O.CAN.KTOP.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120103T0000Z/ WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 534 PM CST MON JAN 2 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. WEAKENING WINDS AND SLOWLY RISING HUMIDITIES HAVE ALLOWED THE FIRE WEATHER THREAT TO DIMINISH. $$
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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.