Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings in 2015
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this red flag warning at Apr 2, 2015, 4:05 AM CDT for 7 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in North Dakota. It took effect at Apr 2, 2015, 12:00 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
- Apr 2, 2015, 4:05 AM CDT (09:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 2, 2015, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Becker County, MN, Clay County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:08 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 2665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
914 WWUS83 KFGF 020905 RFWFGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 405 AM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON... .DRY FUELS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS CLOSE TO 40 MPH AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL BE IN COMBINATION WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES IN THE 25 TO 35 PERCENT RANGE...WHICH WILL MAKE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POSSIBLE. MNZ003-024-027>032-040-NDZ038-039-049-052-053-021715- /O.NEW.KFGF.FW.W.0002.150402T1700Z-150403T0000Z/ CLAY-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL- EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- 405 AM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR DRY FUELS AND STRONG WINDS FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR DRY FUELS AND STRONG WINDS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN MINNESOTA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 003...024... 027...028...029...030...031...032 AND 040. IN NORTH DAKOTA... FIRE WEATHER ZONES 038...039...049...052 AND 053. * WINDS...WEST 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * TIMING...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...25 TO 35 PERCENT WITH SOME SPOTS IN THE 20 TO 25 PERCENT RANGE. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 40S. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR POSSIBLE. ANY FIRES MAY 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 WILL CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ JR
2 follow-up statements
163 WWUS83 KFGF 022010 AAA RFWFGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 310 PM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON... .EXPECT CHANGING CONDITIONS THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING OVER THE RED FLAG WARNING AREA. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE AREA. THIS WILL TURN THE WEST WIND TO A MORE NORTHWEST DIRECTION AND TEMPERATURES WILL DROP 10 TO 20 DEGREES VERY QUICKLY. WIND SPEEDS WILL STILL BE IN THE 25 TO 40 MPH RANGE NEAR AND BEHIND THE FRONT. THERE ARE SOME RAIN SHOWERS AND THEN SNOW SHOWERS WITH THE FRONT WITH AMOUNTS UNDER ONE TENTH OF AN INCH. HOWEVER THE CHANGING WIND DIRECTIONS EVEN WITH SOME PRECIPITATION WILL MAKE FOR DANGEROUS CONITIONS FOR ANY FIRES OR BURNS THAT ARE OCCURRING. BY 7 PM...EXPECT COOLER WEATHER AND HIGHER HUMIDITY VALUES OVER ALL AREAS. MNZ003-024-027>032-040-NDZ038-039-049-052-053-030000- /O.CON.KFGF.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-150403T0000Z/ CLAY-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL- EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- 310 PM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * AFFECTED AREA...IN MINNESOTA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 003...024... 027...028...029...030...031...032 AND 040. IN NORTH DAKOTA... FIRE WEATHER ZONES 038...039...049...052 AND 053. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 25 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 40S TO LOWER 50S. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR POSSIBLE. ANY FIRES MAY 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 DRY FUELS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ DTR
984 WWUS83 KFGF 022347 RFWFGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 647 PM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING TO EXPIRE... .THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 700 PM AS ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER CONDUCIVE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. MNZ003-024-027>032-040-NDZ038-039-049-052-053-030100- /O.EXP.KFGF.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-150403T0000Z/ CLAY-HUBBARD-WEST BECKER-EAST BECKER-WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL- EAST OTTER TAIL-WADENA-GRANT-BARNES-CASS-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- 647 PM CDT THU APR 2 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... $$ WJB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 10:32 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FGF | Becker, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman, Otter Tail and 2 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Minnesota, 2015Red Flag Warnings in North Dakota, 2015Every red flag warning in 2015
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.