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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Dec 12, 2012, 1:26 PM CST for 23 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 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
- Dec 12, 2012, 1:26 PM CST (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 12, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
All 23 counties
Anderson County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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 (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 2282 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
712 WWUS83 KTOP 121926 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 126 PM CST WED DEC 12 2012 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-130000- /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0016.121212T1926Z-121213T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 126 PM CST WED DEC 12 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR DRY FUELS...GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 008 REPUBLIC...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 009 WASHINGTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 010 MARSHALL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 011 NEMAHA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 012 BROWN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 020 CLOUD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 021 CLAY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 022 RILEY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 023 POTTAWATOMIE... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 024 JACKSON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 026 JEFFERSON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 034 OTTAWA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 035 DICKINSON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 036 GEARY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 037 MORRIS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 038 WABAUNSEE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 039 SHAWNEE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 040 DOUGLAS... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 054 LYON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 055 OSAGE... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 056 FRANKLIN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 058 COFFEY AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 059 ANDERSON. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * TIMING...UNTIL 6 PM TODAY. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 18 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOW TO MID 50S. * IMPACTS...FIRES WILL START EASILY AND SPREAD QUICKLY IN THE WARNING AREA...MAKING THEM VERY DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
810 WWUS83 KTOP 122340 AAA RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 540 PM CST WED DEC 12 2012 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-130045- /O.EXP.KTOP.FW.W.0016.000000T0000Z-121213T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 540 PM CST WED DEC 12 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... AS TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING CONTINUE TO COOL... RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL STEADILY INCREASE. AT THE SAME TIME...WIND SPEEDS WILL ONLY BE IN THE 10 TO 15 MPH RANGE. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM. $$
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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.