Alert archive / California / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this red flag warning at Jan 16, 2014, 3:22 PM PST for Monterey County, San Benito County, California. It was in force for 21 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
- Jan 16, 2014, 3:22 PM PST (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2014, 11:57 AM PST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Counties Monterey County, CA, San Benito County, CA
The radar
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 3251 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
831 WWUS86 KMTR 162322 RFWMTR URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 322 PM PST THU JAN 16 2014 CAZ516>518-171400- /O.NEW.KMTR.FW.W.0002.140116T2322Z-140117T2000Z/ SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...ARROYO SECO...AND LAKE SAN ANTONIO- SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST- MOUNTAINS OF SAN BENITO AND INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY INCLUDING PINNACLES NATIONAL PARK- 322 PM PST THU JAN 16 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON PST FRIDAY FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND LIGHT OFFSHORE WINDS. AREAS COVERED BY THE RED FLAG WARNING INCLUDE INTERIOR MONTEREY AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES INCLUDING THE SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST AS WELL AS THE SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON PST FRIDAY. * AFFECTED AREAS: FIRE ZONE 516 SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...ARROYO SECO...AND LAKE SAN ANTONIO...FIRE ZONE 517 SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST...FIRE ZONE 518 MOUNTAINS OF SAN BENITO AND INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY INCLUDING PINNACLES NATIONAL PARK. * TIMING: NOW THROUGH NOON PST FRIDAY. * WIND: EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH. * HUMIDITY: MINIMUM HUMIDITY DURING THE DAY 3 TO 9 PERCENT. MAXIMUM HUMIDITY 15 TO 30 PERCENT AT NIGHT. * IMPACTS: THE COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...LIGHT OFFSHORE WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WHERE ANY NEW IGNITIONS WILL EXPERIENCE RAPID FIRE GROWTH. 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. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
2 follow-up statements
563 WWUS86 KMTR 171139 RFWMTR URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 339 AM PST FRI JAN 17 2014 CAZ516>518-172000- /O.CON.KMTR.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140117T2000Z/ SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...ARROYO SECO...AND LAKE SAN ANTONIO- SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST- MOUNTAINS OF SAN BENITO AND INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY INCLUDING PINNACLES NATIONAL PARK- 339 AM PST FRI JAN 17 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON PST TODAY FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND LIGHT OFFSHORE WINDS. AREAS COVERED BY THE RED FLAG WARNING INCLUDE INTERIOR MONTEREY AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES INCLUDING THE SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST AS WELL AS THE SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY... * AFFECTED AREAS: FIRE ZONE 516 SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY... ARROYO SECO...AND LAKE SAN ANTONIO...FIRE ZONE 517 SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST...FIRE ZONE 518 MOUNTAINS OF SAN BENITO AND INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY INCLUDING PINNACLES NATIONAL PARK. * TIMING: NOW THROUGH NOON PST FRIDAY. * WIND: EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH. * HUMIDITY: MINIMUM HUMIDITY DURING THE DAY 3 TO 9 PERCENT. MAXIMUM HUMIDITY 15 TO 30 PERCENT AT NIGHT. * IMPACTS: THE COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS...LIGHT OFFSHORE WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WHERE ANY NEW IGNITIONS WILL EXPERIENCE RAPID FIRE GROWTH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
014 WWUS86 KMTR 171957 RFWMTR URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 1157 AM PST FRI JAN 17 2014 CAZ516>518-172100- /O.CAN.KMTR.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140117T2000Z/ SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...ARROYO SECO...AND LAKE SAN ANTONIO- SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST- MOUNTAINS OF SAN BENITO AND INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY INCLUDING PINNACLES NATIONAL PARK- 1157 AM PST FRI JAN 17 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR INTERIOR MONTEREY AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES INCLUDING THE SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST AS WELL AS THE SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. ALTHOUGH TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL ALONG WITH VERY LOW HUMIDITY VALUES, RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED FOR MOST LOCATIONS. $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
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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.