Alert archive / Nebraska / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this red flag warning at Mar 20, 2014, 2:58 AM MDT for 7 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 20, 2014, 11:00 AM MDT. 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
- Mar 20, 2014, 2:58 AM MDT (08:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 20, 2014, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2014, 6:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
Counties Arthur County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Keith County, NE, Sheridan County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:00 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 2332 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
441 WWUS83 KLBF 200858 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 358 AM CDT THU MAR 20 2014 ...CRITICAL FIRE DANGER TODAY... .A SURGE OF WARM DRY AIR WILL SPREAD INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA TODAY. WEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 15 TO 25 MPH AS THIS WARM AIR MOVES DURING THE AFTERNOON WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH. NEZ204-210200- /O.NEW.KLBF.FW.W.0008.140320T1700Z-140321T0200Z/ EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR- 258 AM MDT THU MAR 20 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE EASTERN PANHANDLE AND CRESCENT LAKE NWR... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 204 EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...WILD FIRES WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT TO CONTAIN AND COULD BURN UNCONTROLLED. 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. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
2 follow-up statements
135 WWUS83 KLBF 202100 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 400 PM CDT THU MAR 20 2014 ...CRITICAL FIRE DANGER THIS EVENING... .A SURGE OF WARM DRY AIR HAS SPREAD INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA TODAY. WEST WINDS AT TIMES HAVE GUSTED TO 25 TO 30 MPH. THIS COMBINATION HAS RESULTED IN CRITICAL FIRE DANGER FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN PANHANDLE. NEZ204-210200- /O.CON.KLBF.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-140321T0200Z/ EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR- 300 PM MDT THU MAR 20 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE EASTERN PANHANDLE AND CRESCENT LAKE NWR... * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 204 EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR. * WINDS...WEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...WILD FIRES WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT TO CONTAIN AND COULD BURN UNCONTROLLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF MASEK
510 WWUS83 KLBF 210005 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 705 PM CDT THU MAR 20 2014 ...CRITICAL FIRE DANGER ENDING ACROSS THE EASTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND WESTERN SANDHILLS... .WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO UNDER 15 MPH ACROSS THE EASTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND WESTERN SANDHILLS AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE RECOVERED TO 15 TO 20 PERCENT. EXTREME FIRE DANGER WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH SUNSET...HOWEVER...CRITICAL FIRE DANGER HAS ENDED. NEZ204-210115- /O.CAN.KLBF.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-140321T0200Z/ EASTERN PANHANDLE/CRESCENT LAKE NWR- 605 PM MDT THU MAR 20 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THE EASTERN PANHANDLE AND CRESCENT LAKE NWR... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE RECOVERED TO 15 TO 20 PERCENT AND WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO UNDER 15 MPH. $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LBF
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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.