Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Jun 27, 2012, 3:40 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jun 27, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Jun 27, 2012, 3:40 AM CDT (08:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 27, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2012, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 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 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 2631 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
027 WWUS83 KTOP 270840 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 340 AM CDT WED JUN 27 2012 ...DRY AND HOT WEATHER EXPECTED TODAY... .SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS ARE FORECAST TO INCREASE AND GUST TO AROUND 30 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONALLY VERY HOT AND DRY AIR IS LIKELY TO MOVE INTO THE AREA CAUSING RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO FALL INTO THE MIDDLE TEENS. WITH ABNORMALLY DRY FUELS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS COULD CREATE DANGEROUS FIRE BEHAVIOR THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ008-009-020-021-034-035-271730- /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0009.120627T1700Z-120628T0200Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON- 340 AM CDT WED JUN 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...REPUBLIC...WASHINGTON...CLOUD...CLAY...OTTAWA AND DICKINSON COUNTIES. * WINDS...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...100 TO 109. * LIGHTNING...NONE. * IMPACTS...THE LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WITH GUSTY WINDS COULD MAKE ANY FIRE DANGEROUS AND VERY DIFFICULT TO COMBAT. 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. && $$ WOLTERS
2 follow-up statements
040 WWUS83 KTOP 271706 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1206 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2012 ...DRY AND HOT WEATHER EXPECTED TODAY... .SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS ARE FORECAST TO INCREASE AND GUST TO AROUND 30 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONALLY VERY HOT AND DRY AIR IS LIKELY TO MOVE INTO THE AREA CAUSING RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO FALL INTO THE MIDDLE TEENS. WITH ABNORMALLY DRY FUELS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS COULD CREATE DANGEROUS FIRE BEHAVIOR THIS AFTERNOON. KSZ008-009-020-021-034-035-280200- /O.CON.KTOP.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-120628T0200Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON- 1206 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * AFFECTED AREA...REPUBLIC...WASHINGTON...CLOUD...CLAY...OTTAWA AND DICKINSON COUNTIES. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 16 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...105 TO 110. * LIGHTNING...NONE. * IMPACTS...THE LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WITH GUSTY WINDS COULD MAKE ANY FIRE DANGEROUS AND VERY DIFFICULT TO COMBAT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
478 WWUS83 KTOP 280158 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 858 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2012 KSZ008-009-020-021-034-035-280300- /O.EXP.KTOP.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-120628T0200Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON- 858 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... RELATIVE HUMIDITY HAS INCREASED EARLY THIS EVENING AND THE RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO OCCUR. HOWEVER WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY FOR THE REST OF THE EVENING. $$
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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.