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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Feb 18, 2014, 2:14 PM CST for 22 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 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
- Feb 18, 2014, 2:14 PM CST (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2014, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
All 22 counties
Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 2991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 530 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 554 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
441 WWUS83 KDDC 182014 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 214 PM CST TUE FEB 18 2014 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS LIKELY THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING... .VERY WARM TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND INCREASING NORTHWEST WINDS WILL LEAD TO AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS CONDUCIVE FOR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. KSZ030-031-043>046-061>065-074>079-084>088-190100- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0002.140218T2014Z-140219T0100Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-MORTON-STEVENS- SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- 214 PM CST TUE FEB 18 2014 /114 PM MST TUE FEB 18 2014/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS FOR WEST CENTRAL, CENTRAL, AND 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 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 030 TREGO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 031 ELLIS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 043 SCOTT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 044 LANE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 045 NESS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 046 RUSH...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 061 HAMILTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 KEARNY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 063 FINNEY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 064 HODGEMAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 065 PAWNEE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 STANTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 GRANT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 076 HASKELL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 077 GRAY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 078 FORD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 079 EDWARDS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 086 SEWARD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 MEADE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 088 CLARK. * WINDS...NORTH TO NORTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH 7 PM CST. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 7 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE 70S. * IMPACTS...VERY AGGRESSIVE FIRE WEATHER BEHAVIOR COULD LEAD TO FIRES QUICKLY GROWING OUT OF CONTROL. OUTDOOR BURNING IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. 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. && $$ 32
1 follow-up statement
686 WWUS83 KDDC 190046 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 646 PM CST TUE FEB 18 2014 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>065-074>079-084>088-190200- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140219T0100Z/ TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN- PAWNEE-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-MORTON-STEVENS- SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK- 646 PM CST TUE FEB 18 2014 /546 PM MST TUE FEB 18 2014/ ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RISE AS TEMPERATURES FALL EARLY THIS EVENING. HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE MOVING IN FROM THE NORTHWEST HAS ALSO ALLOWED WINDS TO DECREASE. AS A RESULT THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 7 PM CST. $$ BURGERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 2:43 AM CST | Wind Advisory | DDC | Ellis, Lane, Ness, Rush, Scott, Trego | 16 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:53 PM CST | High Wind Watch | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 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.