Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this red flag warning at Nov 1, 2014, 11:01 AM CDT for 10 counties in Minnesota. 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, 11:01 AM CDT (16:01 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 Twin Cities, MN
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Pope County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:07 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 1639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
959 WWUS83 KMPX 011601 RFWMPX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1101 AM CDT SAT NOV 1 2014 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... .A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA...TO WILLMAR AND REDWOOD FALLS. STRONG SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH WINDS FROM 20 TO 25 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH AND MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES OF 20 TO 25 PERCENT ARE FORECAST. THIS WILL RESULT IN POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WILDFIRE CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. MNZ041-047-048-054>057-064-065-073-012300- /O.NEW.KMPX.FW.W.0004.141101T1700Z-141101T2300Z/ DOUGLAS-STEVENS-POPE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI- YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-REDWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD... MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR...GRANITE FALLS... OLIVIA...REDWOOD FALLS 1101 AM CDT SAT NOV 1 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA WEST OF A LINE FROM ALEXANDRIA...TO WILLMAR AND REDWOOD FALLS. * WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...20 TO 25 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...WILD FIRES COULD BECOME FAST MOVING IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME DUE TO THE STRONG WINDS... LOW HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS. 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. && $$
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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.