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Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE

April 24, 20145 counties in Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Apr 24, 2014, 12:05 PM CDT for 5 counties in Nebraska. 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 24, 2014, 12:05 PM CDT (17:05 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Dawson County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2014-04-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2014-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -209 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-209 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-100 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.

344 
WWUS83 KGID 241705
RFWGID

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1205 PM CDT THU APR 24 2014

NEZ039-046-060-072-082-250000-
/O.NEW.KGID.FW.W.0013.140424T1705Z-140425T0000Z/
VALLEY-SHERMAN-DAWSON-GOSPER-FURNAS-
1205 PM CDT THU APR 24 2014

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR
WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 039...046...
060...072 AND 082...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING.

* AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 039 VALLEY... 
  FIRE WEATHER ZONE 046 SHERMAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 060 DAWSON...
   FIRE WEATHER ZONE 072 GOSPER AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 082 FURNAS.

* WINDS...NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 30 MPH.

* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...15 TO 20 PERCENT

* IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL SPREAD QUICKLY...BE 
  DIFFICULT TO CONTROL...AND WILL EXHIBIT 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 CAN
CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR.

&&

$$
1 follow-up statement
392 
WWUS83 KGID 242356
RFWGID

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
656 PM CDT THU APR 24 2014

NEZ039-046-060-072-082-250100-
/O.EXP.KGID.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-140425T0000Z/
VALLEY-SHERMAN-DAWSON-GOSPER-FURNAS-
656 PM CDT THU APR 24 2014

...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND
AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 039...046...
060...072 AND 082...

WIND SPEEDS WILL DECREASE RAPIDLY THIS EVENING AND RELATIVE
HUMIDITY WILL GRADUALLY RISE. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING
WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

$$

HEINLEIN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 7:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps43 min
Apr 23, 8:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin42 min
Apr 23, 8:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDWebster46 min
Apr 23, 8:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDAdams, Franklin, Kearney52 min

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.