Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 10, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 9, 2014, 3:37 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 9, 2014, 1:00 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 9, 2014, 3:37 AM CDT (08:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 9, 2014, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2014, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:39 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 2776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
166 WWUS83 KDDC 090837 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 337 AM CDT WED APR 9 2014 KSZ046-064>066-077>081-086-090945- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.A.0007.140409T1800Z-140410T0100Z/ RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT- SEWARD- 337 AM CDT WED APR 9 2014 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH. $$ KSZ087>090-091900- /O.UPG.KDDC.FW.A.0007.140409T1800Z-140410T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0010.140409T1800Z-140410T0100Z/ MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 337 AM CDT WED APR 9 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS FOR PARTS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 MEADE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 088 CLARK...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 089 COMANCHE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 090 BARBER. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * TIMING...1 PM TO 8 PM. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MIDDLE 80S. * IMPACTS...AGGRESSIVE FIRE BEHAVIOR COULD LEAD TO FIRES QUICKLY GROWING OUT OF CONTROL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ BURGERT
2 follow-up statements
640 WWUS83 KDDC 091833 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 133 PM CDT WED APR 9 2014 KSZ087>090-100100- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0010.000000T0000Z-140410T0100Z/ MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 133 PM CDT WED APR 9 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS FOR A PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 MEADE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 088 CLARK...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 089 COMANCHE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 090 BARBER. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...1 PM TO 8 PM. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 12 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOWER 80S. * IMPACTS...AGGRESSIVE FIRE BEHAVIOR COULD LEAD TO FIRES QUICKLY GROWING 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 CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ 06
875 WWUS83 KDDC 100056 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 756 PM CDT WED APR 9 2014 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... KSZ087>090-100200- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0010.000000T0000Z-140410T0100Z/ MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 756 PM CDT WED APR 9 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS HAVE BEGUN TO INCREASE THIS EVENING AS TEMPERATURES FALL. THEREFORE, THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ GERARD
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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.