Alert archive / Nebraska / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this red flag warning at Apr 25, 2014, 9:55 PM MDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Apr 26, 2014, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 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 25, 2014, 9:55 PM MDT (03:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 26, 2014, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2014, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Chase County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 3271 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
812 WWUS83 KLBF 260355 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1055 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR FRENCHMAN BASIN... .A SURGE OF VERY WARM DRY AIR WILL MOVE UP FROM KANSAS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND LAST INTO EARLY EVENING. AT THE SAME TIME...SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE TO AROUND 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH. NEZ210-270300- /O.NEW.KLBF.FW.W.0013.140426T1800Z-140427T0300Z/ FRENCHMAN BASIN- 1055 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 10 PM CDT SATURDAY FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FRENCHMAN BASIN... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 10 PM CDT SATURDAY. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 210 FRENCHMAN BASIN. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY RANGE FIRE START WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BURN OUT OF CONTROL AND 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 WILL CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
3 follow-up statements
550 WWUS83 KLBF 260951 AAA RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 451 AM CDT SAT APR 26 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR FRENCHMAN BASIN... .A SURGE OF VERY WARM DRY AIR WILL MOVE UP FROM KANSAS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND LAST INTO EARLY EVENING. AT THE SAME TIME...SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE TO AROUND 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH. NEZ210-270300- /O.CON.KLBF.FW.W.0013.140426T1800Z-140427T0300Z/ FRENCHMAN BASIN- 451 AM CDT SAT APR 26 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FRENCHMAN BASIN... * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 210 FRENCHMAN BASIN. * WINDS...SOUTH 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY RANGE FIRE START WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BURN OUT OF CONTROL AND EXHIBIT EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
585 WWUS83 KLBF 262118 AAA RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 418 PM CDT SAT APR 26 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR FRENCHMAN BASIN... .WARM AND VERY DRY AIR MOVED INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA WHICH DROPPED RELATIVE HUMIDITY DOWN BELOW 15 PERCENT IN FIRE ZONE 210. BREEZY SOUTHERLY WINDS GUSTING TO 25 MPH WILL KEEP FIRE DANGER CRITICAL THROUGH THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE OVERNIGHT AS RELATIVE HUMIDITY RECOVERS AND WINDS DIMINISH. NEZ210-270300- /O.CON.KLBF.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-140427T0300Z/ FRENCHMAN BASIN- 418 PM CDT SAT APR 26 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FRENCHMAN BASIN... * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 210 FRENCHMAN BASIN. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY RANGE FIRE START WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BURN OUT OF CONTROL AND 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 WILL CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
120 WWUS83 KLBF 270211 AAA RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 911 PM CDT SAT APR 26 2014 NEZ210-270315- /O.CAN.KLBF.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-140427T0300Z/ FRENCHMAN BASIN- 911 PM CDT SAT APR 26 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FRENCHMAN BASIN... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING HAS CAUSED WIND SPEEDS TO DROP TO 10 MPH OR LESS. THE THREAT OF CRITICAL FIRE DANGER HAS ENDED. $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
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.