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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Jan 15, 2012, 2:17 PM CST for 8 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 3 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 15, 2012, 2:17 PM CST (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2012, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 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 20:21 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, 8.3 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
- 1954 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 509 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 602 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
597 WWUS83 KTOP 152017 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 217 PM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR A COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS... KSZ038>040-054>056-058-059-152300- /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0002.120115T2017Z-120115T2300Z/ WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 217 PM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...AREA ALONG AND SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM EMPORIA TO ESKRIDGE TO TOPEKA AND LAWRENCE. * WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 17 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 60S. * IMPACTS...DRY FUELS...STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
984 WWUS83 KTOP 152305 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 505 PM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... .RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES HAVE INCREASED TO ABOVE 20 PERCENT THIS EVENING AND WIND SPEEDS WILL DECREASE SLIGHTLY. FIRE DANGER REMAINS HIGH...BUT EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. KSZ038>040-054>056-058-059-160015- /O.EXP.KTOP.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120115T2300Z/ WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 505 PM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES HAVE INCREASED TO ABOVE 20 PERCENT THIS EVENING AND WIND SPEEDS WILL DECREASE SLIGHTLY. FIRE DANGER REMAINS HIGH...BUT EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. $$
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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.