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Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 17, 2015, 3:12 AM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 17, 2015, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 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
- Apr 17, 2015, 3:12 AM CDT (08:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 17, 2015, 2:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2015, 6:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
County Morton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:12 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
265 WWUS83 KDDC 170812 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 312 AM CDT FRI APR 17 2015 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED TODAY... .BREEZY SOUTH WINDS AND VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. KSZ084-171615- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0009.150417T1900Z-150418T0100Z/ MORTON- 312 AM CDT FRI APR 17 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY OUTDOOR FIRES SHOULD BE AVOIDED AS FIRES WILL GROW AND SPREAD RAPIDLY. 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. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC (ALL LOWER CASE)
2 follow-up statements
517 WWUS83 KDDC 171638 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1138 AM CDT FRI APR 17 2015 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED TODAY... .BREEZY SOUTH WINDS AND VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS. KSZ084-180045- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0009.150417T1900Z-150418T0100Z/ MORTON- 1138 AM CDT FRI APR 17 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084... * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON. * WINDS...SOUTH AROUND 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY OUTDOOR FIRES SHOULD BE AVOIDED AS FIRES WILL GROW AND SPREAD RAPIDLY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC (ALL LOWER CASE)
017 WWUS83 KDDC 172357 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 657 PM CDT FRI APR 17 2015 KSZ084-180100- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-150418T0100Z/ MORTON- 657 PM CDT FRI APR 17 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS HAVE BEGUN TO RISE, AS A RESULT THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC (ALL LOWER CASE)
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 54 min |
| Apr 16, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 21 min |
| Apr 17, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Finney | 66 min |
| Apr 17, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane | 62 min |
| Apr 17, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 66 min |
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.