Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2013
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 5, 2013, 3:25 AM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 5, 2013, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Apr 5, 2013, 3:25 AM CDT (08:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 5, 2013, 2:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2013, 9:06 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:23 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 2106 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
203 WWUS83 KDDC 050825 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 325 AM CDT FRI APR 5 2013 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL EXIST THIS AFTERNOON... .RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL DOWN INTO THE 10 TO 15 PERCENT RANGE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE UPPER 70S AND POSSIBLY THE LOWER 80S. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS THIS AFTERNOON WILL GRADUALLY SUBSIDE LATE IN THE DAY NEAR THE COLORADO BORDER AS A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE MOVES INTO FAR WESTERN KANSAS. KSZ061-062-074-075-084-085-051630- /O.UPG.KDDC.FW.A.0003.130405T1900Z-130406T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0002.130405T1900Z-130406T0200Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-STANTON-GRANT-MORTON-STEVENS- 325 AM CDT FRI APR 5 2013 /225 AM MDT FRI APR 5 2013/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM CDT /1 PM MDT/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM CDT /1 PM MDT/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 061 HAMILTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 KEARNY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 STANTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 GRANT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * TIMING...FROM 2 PM UNTIL 9 PM. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 70S AND POSSIBLY THE LOWER 80S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRE WHICH WOULD START WILL EASILY SPREAD AND COULD QUICKLY BECOME OUT OF CONTROL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ 32
3 follow-up statements
171 WWUS83 KDDC 051622 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1122 AM CDT FRI APR 5 2013 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL EXIST THIS AFTERNOON... .RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL DOWN INTO THE 10 TO 15 PERCENT RANGE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE UPPER 70S AND POSSIBLY THE LOWER 80S. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS THIS AFTERNOON WILL GRADUALLY SUBSIDE LATE IN THE DAY NEAR THE COLORADO BORDER AS A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE MOVES INTO FAR WESTERN KANSAS. KSZ061-062-074-075-084-085-060030- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0002.130405T1900Z-130406T0200Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-STANTON-GRANT-MORTON-STEVENS- 1122 AM CDT FRI APR 5 2013 /1022 AM MDT FRI APR 5 2013/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 061 HAMILTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 KEARNY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 STANTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 GRANT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * TIMING...FROM 2 PM UNTIL 9 PM. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 70S TO AROUND 80 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRE WHICH WOULD START WILL EASILY SPREAD AND COULD QUICKLY BECOME OUT OF CONTROL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
342 WWUS83 KDDC 052345 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 645 PM CDT FRI APR 5 2013 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST EARLY THIS EVENING... .RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL REMAIN AT OR BELOW 15 PERCENT ALONG WITH GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS EARLY THIS EVENING. KSZ061-062-074-075-084-085-060200- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130406T0200Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-STANTON-GRANT-MORTON-STEVENS- 645 PM CDT FRI APR 5 2013 /545 PM MDT FRI APR 5 2013/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 061 HAMILTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 KEARNY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 STANTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 GRANT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH 9 PM. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...10 TO 15 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 70S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRE WHICH WOULD START WILL EASILY SPREAD AND COULD QUICKLY BECOME OUT OF CONTROL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ FINCH
669 WWUS83 KDDC 060206 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 906 PM CDT FRI APR 5 2013 KSZ061-062-074-075-084-085-060315- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130406T0200Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-STANTON-GRANT-MORTON-STEVENS- 906 PM CDT FRI APR 5 2013 /806 PM MDT FRI APR 5 2013/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS FOR SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE RISEN ABOVE 15 PERCENT SO THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ FINCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 3:27 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gray and 12 more | 16 hr |
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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.