Alert archive / Connecticut / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this red flag warning at Apr 20, 2016, 3:37 AM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Apr 20, 2016, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 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 20, 2016, 3:37 AM EDT (07:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 20, 2016, 10:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2016, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Berkshire County, MA
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:40 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 2934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
575 WWUS81 KALY 200737 RFWALY URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 337 AM EDT WED APR 20 2016 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-202200- /O.UPG.KALY.FW.A.0002.160420T1600Z-160420T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KALY.FW.W.0002.160420T1400Z-160420T2200Z/ NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE- SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE- 337 AM EDT WED APR 20 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES... AT THE REQUEST OF STATE FIRE OFFICIALS...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 5 TO 10 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 20 MPH. * TIMING...LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID TO UPPER 50S. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL MAKE FOR LOCALLY ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. ANY FIRES THAT START MAY SPREAD RAPIDLY AND BECOME DIFFICULT TO EXTINGUISH. && $$
2 follow-up statements
240 WWUS81 KALY 201719 RFWALY URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 119 PM EDT WED APR 20 2016 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-202200- /O.CON.KALY.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160420T2200Z/ NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE- SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE- 119 PM EDT WED APR 20 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES... AT THE REQUEST OF STATE FIRE OFFICIALS...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 5 TO 10 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 20 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...55 TO 60 ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND 60 TO 65 IN THE VALLEYS. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF DRY FUELS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL MAKE FOR LOCALLY ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. ANY FIRES THAT START MAY SPREAD RAPIDLY AND BECOME DIFFICULT TO EXTINGUISH. && $$
493 WWUS81 KALY 202205 RFWALY URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 605 PM EDT WED APR 20 2016 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-202315- /O.EXP.KALY.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160420T2200Z/ NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE- SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE- 605 PM EDT WED APR 20 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT... WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH...AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL BE INCREASING THIS EVENING. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. $$
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.