Alert archive / Missouri / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this red flag warning at Feb 21, 2014, 9:42 AM CST for 5 counties in Missouri; Linn County, Miami County, Kansas. It took effect at Feb 21, 2014, 12:00 PM CST. 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
- Feb 21, 2014, 9:42 AM CST (15:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 21, 2014, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2014, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
Counties Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Bates County, MO, Cass County, MO, Henry County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Pettis County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:39 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 1983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
768 WWUS83 KEAX 211542 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 942 AM CST FRI FEB 21 2014 .DESPITE A COLD FRONT AND RAIN THURSDAY...FIRE WEATHER RELATED WEATHER ELEMENTS WILL QUICKLY DETERIORATE TODAY AS GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS RETURN TO THE REGION. THIS WILL RESULT IN A HUMIDITY VALUES QUICKLY DROPPING INTO THE 25 PERCENT RANGE WHILE SUSTAINED WINDS ARE AROUND 20 MPH. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE AS THE SUN SETS AND TEMPERATURES COOL. LIGHT NORTH WINDS WILL RETURN SATURDAY MITIGATING FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS FOR THE WEEKEND. KSZ057-060-MOZ043>045-053-054-212345- /O.NEW.KEAX.FW.W.0004.140221T1800Z-140222T0000Z/ MIAMI-LINN KS-CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-BATES-HENRY- 942 AM CST FRI FEB 21 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY VALUES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 043...044...045...053...054...057 AND 060... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY VALUES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 057 MIAMI AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 060 LINN KS. IN MISSOURI...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 043 CASS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 044 JOHNSON MO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 045 PETTIS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 053 BATES AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 054 HENRY. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...CRITICAL CONDITIONS WILL ONSET EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH CONDITIONS IMPROVING AROUND SUNSET. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 24 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 50S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES...PARTICULARLY OVER GRASSY AREAS...WILL HAVE HIGH PROBABILITY OF SPREADING RAPIDLY FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST. OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED. 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. && $$ CUTTER
1 follow-up statement
739 WWUS83 KEAX 212358 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 558 PM CST FRI FEB 21 2014 KSZ057-060-MOZ043>045-053-054-220100- /O.EXP.KEAX.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-140222T0000Z/ MIAMI-LINN KS-CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-BATES-HENRY- 558 PM CST FRI FEB 21 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY VALUES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 043... 044...045...053...054...057 AND 060... GUSTY WEST SOUTHWEST WINDS HAVE BEGUN TO DIMINISH ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THESE LIGHTER WINDS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY RISING RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AS TEMPERATURES FALL THIS EVENING. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ LAFLIN
Nearby
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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.