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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Feb 10, 2016, 1:38 PM CST for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 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 10, 2016, 1:38 PM CST (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 2618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
129 WWUS83 KDDC 101938 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 138 PM CST WED FEB 10 2016 KSZ064-077>080-110000- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0001.160210T1938Z-160211T0000Z/ HODGEMAN-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- 138 PM CST WED FEB 10 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 064...077...078...079 AND 080... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 064...077...078...079 AND 080. * WIND...FREQUENT GUSTS OVER 25 MPH. * HUMIDITY...LESS THAN 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
560 WWUS83 KDDC 102337 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 537 PM CST WED FEB 10 2016 ...DECREASING WINDS AND FIRE DANGER THIS EVENING... KSZ064-077>080-110045- /O.EXP.KDDC.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160211T0000Z/ HODGEMAN-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA- 537 PM CST WED FEB 10 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 064...077...078...079 AND 080... GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DIMINISH QUICKLY AROUND SUNSET THIS EVENING, AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BEGIN A SLOW RECOVERY. AS SUCH, HAVE ALLOWED THE RED FLAG WARNING TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST. $$ TURNER
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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.