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Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 15, 2015, 8:30 AM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It took effect at Apr 15, 2015, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2015, 8:30 AM MDT (14:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 15, 2015, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2015, 8:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:36 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 4:25 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 58 | Burlington, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 2567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
222 WWUS83 KGLD 151430 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 830 AM MDT WED APR 15 2015 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED TODAY INTO THIS EVENING... .SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL COMBINE WITH EXTREMELY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY TO CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR A MAJORITY OF KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF COLORADO. COZ253-254-160300- /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.W.0013.150415T1900Z-150416T0300Z/ KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO- 830 AM MDT WED APR 15 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 253 AND 254... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN COLORADO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 253 KIT CARSON AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 254 CHEYENNE CO. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 8 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 60S. * 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 ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/GLD (ALL LOWER CASE)
1 follow-up statement
675 WWUS83 KGLD 160210 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 810 PM MDT WED APR 15 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING... COZ253-254-160315- /O.CAN.KGLD.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-150416T0300Z/ KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO- 810 PM MDT WED APR 15 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 253 AND 254... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. CONDITIONS HAVE IMPROVED THIS EVENING AND A RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER NEEDED. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH WITH GUSTY WINDS BUT COOLER TEMPERATURES AND INCREASED RELATIVE HUMIDITY PRECLUDE THE NEED FOR A RED FLAG WARNING. $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/GLD (ALL LOWER CASE)
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 4:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 5:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 25 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.