Alert archive / Missouri / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this red flag warning at Mar 18, 2014, 3:40 AM CDT for 5 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 18, 2014, 1:00 PM CDT. 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 18, 2014, 3:40 AM CDT (08:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 18, 2014, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2014, 8:07 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:41 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 3192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
559 WWUS83 KSGF 180840 RFWSGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 340 AM CDT TUE MAR 18 2014 ...HIGH FIRE DANGER OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO FAR WESTERN MISSOURI TODAY... .A STRONG AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK EAST ACROSS KANSAS TODAY AND INTO WESTERN MISSOURI BY THIS EVENING. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE LOW ACROSS THE REGION TODAY WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 MPH POSSIBLE. AFTERNOON HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL DROP INTO THE 20 TO 25 PERCENT RANGE OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO FAR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI WHICH WHEN COMBINED WITH THE WINDS WILL MAKE FOR A HIGH FIRE DANGER TODAY. A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR FAR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS FROM 1 PM THROUGH 9 PM. KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-077-088-093-101-182200- /O.NEW.KSGF.FW.W.0009.140318T1800Z-140319T0200Z/ BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-VERNON-BARTON-JASPER-NEWTON-MCDONALD- 340 AM CDT TUE MAR 18 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR HIGH FIRE DANGER OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR HIGH FIRE DANGER...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 073 BOURBON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 097 CRAWFORD AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 101 CHEROKEE. IN MISSOURI...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 066 VERNON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 077 BARTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 088 JASPER...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 093 NEWTON AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 101 MCDONALD. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...FROM EARLY AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...20 TO 25 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 60S. * IMPACTS...ANY OUTDOOR BURNING WILL BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO CONTAIN AND CONTROL. GRASS FIRES WILL SPREAD QUICKLY UNDER THESE CONDITIONS. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
289 WWUS83 KSGF 182149 RFWSGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 449 PM CDT TUE MAR 18 2014 ...HIGH FIRE DANGER OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO FAR WESTERN MISSOURI TODAY... .A STRONG AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK EAST ACROSS KANSAS TODAY AND INTO WESTERN MISSOURI BY THIS EVENING. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE LOW ACROSS THE REGION TODAY WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 MPH POSSIBLE. AFTERNOON HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL DROP INTO THE 20 TO 25 PERCENT RANGE OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO FAR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI WHICH WHEN COMBINED WITH THE WINDS WILL MAKE FOR A HIGH FIRE DANGER TODAY. A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR FAR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS FROM 1 PM THROUGH 9 PM. KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-077-088-093-101-190200- /O.CON.KSGF.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-140319T0200Z/ BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-VERNON-BARTON-JASPER-NEWTON-MCDONALD- 449 PM CDT TUE MAR 18 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 073 BOURBON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 097 CRAWFORD AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 101 CHEROKEE. IN MISSOURI...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 066 VERNON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 077 BARTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 088 JASPER...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 093 NEWTON AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 101 MCDONALD. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 25 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID AND UPPER 60S FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES. * IMPACTS...ANY OUTDOOR BURNING WILL BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO CONTAIN AND CONTROL. GRASS FIRES WILL SPREAD QUICKLY UNDER THESE CONDITIONS. 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. && $$
527 WWUS83 KSGF 190107 RFWSGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 807 PM CDT TUE MAR 18 2014 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-077-088-093-101-190215- /O.CAN.KSGF.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-140319T0200Z/ BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-VERNON-BARTON-JASPER-NEWTON-MCDONALD- 807 PM CDT TUE MAR 18 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI. WEATHER CONDITIONS HAVE MODERATED OVER THE REGION WITH HIGHER HUMIDITY AND DIMINISHED WINDS. $$
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.