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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Grand Forks, ND

November 1, 201414 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this red flag warning at Nov 1, 2014, 10:43 AM CDT for 14 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Nov 1, 2014, 12:00 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: Nov 1, 2014, 10:43 AM CDT (15:43 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 1, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Nov 1, 2014, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND

Counties Becker County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Grant County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Cass County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Traill County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:45 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 276 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

606 
WWUS83 KFGF 011543
RFWFGF

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
1043 AM CDT SAT NOV 1 2014

...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON...

.CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE
AFTERNOON IN SE NORTH DAKOTA...W CENTRAL AND NW MINNESOTA. WITH
TEMPERATURES REBOUNDING INTO THE 40S...DEWPOINTS NEAR SINGLE
DIGITS...AND STRENGTHENING SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS WHICH MAY GUST TO AS
HIGH AS 40 MPH...MINIMUM HUMIDITIES WILL MIX DOWN INTO THE 20 TO
25 PERCENT RANGE. THESE CONDITIONS COMBINED WITH THE DRY GRASS FUELS
SET THE STAGE FOR EXTREMELY DANGEROUS FIRE POTENTIAL.

MNZ001>005-007-008-013>016-022-023-027>031-040-NDZ030-039-049-052-
053-012300-
/O.NEW.KFGF.FW.W.0002.141101T1700Z-141101T2300Z/
WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-ROSEAU-WEST MARSHALL-EAST MARSHALL-
PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-MAHNOMEN-
SOUTH CLEARWATER-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-
EAST OTTER TAIL-GRANT-TRAILL-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND-
1043 AM CDT SAT NOV 1 2014

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR DRY 
FUELS AND LOW MINIMUM HUMIDITIES FOR SE ND AND NW MN...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING FOR DRY FUELS AND LOW HUMIDITIES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING.

* AFFECTED AREA...IN MINNESOTA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002... 
  003...004...005...007...008...013...014...015...016...022...
  023... 027...028...029...030...031 AND 040. IN NORTH DAKOTA...
  FIRE WEATHER ZONES 030...039...049...052 AND 053.

* WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH.

* TIMING...FROM NOON TO 600 PM CDT.

* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 19 PERCENT.

* TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOWER 40S.

* IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR.

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
CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR.

&&

$$

HOPKINS

1 follow-up statement

891 
WWUS83 KFGF 012316
RFWFGF

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND
616 PM CDT SAT NOV 1 2014

...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED...

.RED FLAG WARNING FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA
AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA HAS EXPIRED.

MNZ001>005-007-008-013>016-022-023-027>031-040-NDZ030-039-049-052-
053-020030-
/O.EXP.KFGF.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-141101T2300Z/
WEST POLK-NORMAN-CLAY-KITTSON-ROSEAU-WEST MARSHALL-EAST MARSHALL-
PENNINGTON-RED LAKE-EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-MAHNOMEN-
SOUTH CLEARWATER-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-
EAST OTTER TAIL-GRANT-TRAILL-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND-
616 PM CDT SAT NOV 1 2014

...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR DRY FUELS AND LOW MINIMUM
HUMIDITIES FOR SE ND AND NW MN...

RED FLAG WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF
NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NORTH
DAKOTA HAS EXPIRED. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES
HAVE INCREASED ABOVE WARNING CRITERIA AND SO THE WARNING HAS
EXPIRED. 

$$

HOPPES

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Minnesota, 2014 Red Flag Warnings in North Dakota, 2014 Every red flag warning in 2014

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.