Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Feb 21, 2014, 9:42 AM CST for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 21, 2014, 12:00 PM CST. 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
- Feb 21, 2014, 9:42 AM CST (15:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 21, 2014, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2014, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
401 WWUS83 KTOP 211542 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 942 AM CST FRI FEB 21 2014 ...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... .STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. ALONG WITH WARM TEMPERATURES...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND DRY VEGETATION...THIS WILL MAKE FOR POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. KSZ054>056-058-059-212345- /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0003.140221T1800Z-140222T0000Z/ LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 942 AM CST FRI FEB 21 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 054 LYON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 055 OSAGE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 056 FRANKLIN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 058 COFFEY AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 059 ANDERSON. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 33 MPH. * TIMING...WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS BY EARLY AFTERNOON. RH VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP AT THIS TIME AS WELL. CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO IMPROVE AFTER 6 PM. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 19 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 50S. * IMPACTS...FIRES MAY START QUICKLY...SPREAD FURIOUSLY AND BURN INTENSELY. ALL FIRES ARE POTENTIALLY SERIOUS. ALL OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
1 follow-up statement
827 WWUS83 KTOP 220005 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 605 PM CST FRI FEB 21 2014 KSZ054>056-058-059-220115- /O.EXP.KTOP.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-140222T0000Z/ LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 605 PM CST FRI FEB 21 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED. OCCASIONAL WIND GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 8 PM...BUT WILL BE LIMITED IN NUMBER AND RH WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO RISE ABOVE 30 PERCENT BY 8 PM. $$
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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.