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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 8, 2013, 12:25 PM CDT for Morton County, Stanton County, Stevens County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 8, 2013, 3:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 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 8, 2013, 12:25 PM CDT (17:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 8, 2013, 3:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2013, 8:38 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 528 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
793 WWUS83 KDDC 081725 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1225 PM CDT MON APR 8 2013 ...DRY AND GUSTY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP... .A WARM FRONT WILL LIFT NORTHWARD INTO FAR SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS ALONG WITH MUCH WARMER AND DRIER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA SOUTH OF THE FRONT. KSZ074-084-085-090130- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0003.130408T2000Z-130409T0200Z/ STANTON-MORTON-STEVENS- 1225 PM CDT MON APR 8 2013 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FAR SOUTHWEST KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 STANTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * TIMING...FROM 3 PM UNTIL 9 PM. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 TO 15 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOWER 80S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT START COULD EASILY SPREAD AND 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. && $$ GERARD
1 follow-up statement
466 WWUS83 KDDC 090138 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 838 PM CDT MON APR 8 2013 KSZ074-084-085-090245- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-130409T0200Z/ STANTON-MORTON-STEVENS- 838 PM CDT MON APR 8 2013 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS FOR FAR SOTUHWEST KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. HUMIDITIES HAVE INCREASED SO THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ FINCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 9:27 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant and 13 more | 13 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.