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Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Furnas, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps | 43 min |
| Apr 23, 8:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 8:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Webster | 46 min |
| Apr 23, 8:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Adams, Franklin, Kearney | 52 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.