Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2013
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 13, 2013, 7:30 AM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 13, 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 13, 2013, 7:30 AM CDT (12:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 13, 2013, 3:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2013, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Morton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:30 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 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
509 WWUS83 KDDC 131230 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 730 AM CDT SAT APR 13 2013 ...DRY AND BREEZY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP... .GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AND VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. KSZ084-140200- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0004.130413T2000Z-130414T0200Z/ MORTON- 730 AM CDT SAT APR 13 2013 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 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 GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON. * WINDS...FREQUENT WIND GUSTS OF 25 TO 30 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. * TIMING... FROM 3 PM TO 9 PM. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 12 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S. * 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. && $$ FINCH
1 follow-up statement
938 WWUS83 KDDC 140150 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 850 PM CDT SAT APR 13 2013 KSZ084-140300- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-130414T0200Z/ MORTON- 850 PM CDT SAT APR 13 2013 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FAR SOUTHWEST KANSAS... GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WERE DECREASING ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS AS RELATIVE HUMIDITIES CLIMB ABOVE 15 PERCENT EARLY TONIGHT. AS A RESULT THE THREAT FOR WILDFIRES HAVE DIMINISHED. $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 6:54 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DDC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 4 more | 2 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.