Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 30, 2016, 2:20 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 30, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 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
- Mar 30, 2016, 2:20 AM CDT (07:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 30, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2016, 6:51 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:19 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
356 WWUS83 KDDC 300720 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 220 AM CDT WED MAR 30 2016 ...CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS FAR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... KSZ084>090-310000- /O.UPG.KDDC.FW.A.0011.160330T1800Z-160331T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0013.160330T1800Z-160331T0200Z/ MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 220 AM CDT WED MAR 30 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 084...085...086...087...088...089 AND 090... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 086 SEWARD... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 MEADE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 088 CLARK... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 089 COMANCHE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 090 BARBER. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON...BECOMING NORTHWEST THIS EVENING... 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT START WILL HAVE EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT ADVISED. 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. && $$ TURNER FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC (ALL LOWER CASE)
2 follow-up statements
945 WWUS83 KDDC 302115 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 415 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016 ...CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS POSSIBLE ACROSS FAR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THIS EVENING... KSZ084>090-310200- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160331T0200Z/ MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 415 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 084... 085...086...087...088...089 AND 090... * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 086 SEWARD... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 MEADE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 088 CLARK... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 089 COMANCHE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 090 BARBER. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT START WILL HAVE EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT ADVISED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC (ALL LOWER CASE)
142 WWUS83 KDDC 302351 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 651 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS NO LONGER EXIST... KSZ084>090-310100- /O.CAN.KDDC.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160331T0200Z/ MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER- 651 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 084...085...086...087...088... 089 AND 090... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS NO LONGER EXIST. THEREFORE, THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC (ALL LOWER CASE)
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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.