Alert archive / Missouri / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this red flag warning at Feb 19, 2016, 3:42 AM CST for 18 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 19, 2016, 10:00 AM CST. 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
- Feb 19, 2016, 3:42 AM CST (09:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 19, 2016, 10:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2016, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
All 25 counties
Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:48 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 2392 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 453 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
655 WWUS83 KEAX 190942 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 342 AM CST FRI FEB 19 2016 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ011>014-020>023-028>031-037>039-043-044- 053-191745- /O.NEW.KEAX.FW.W.0002.160219T1600Z-160219T2300Z/ ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL- LIVINGSTON-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-CARROLL-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-CASS- JOHNSON MO-BATES- 342 AM CST FRI FEB 19 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 011... 012...013...014...020...021...022...023...025...028...029...030... 031...037...038...039...043...044...053...057...060...102...103... 104 AND 105... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 025...057...060...102... 103...104 AND 105. FIRE WEATHER ZONES 011...012...013...014... 020...021...022...023...028...029...030...031...037...038... 039...043...044 AND 053. * WIND...WEST WINDS GUSTING TO 25 MPH * HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
468 WWUS83 KEAX 191443 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 843 AM CST FRI FEB 19 2016 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ011>014-020>023-028>031-037>039-043-044- 053-192300- /O.CON.KEAX.FW.W.0002.160219T1600Z-160219T2300Z/ ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL- LIVINGSTON-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-CARROLL-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-CASS- JOHNSON MO-BATES- 843 AM CST FRI FEB 19 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 011... 012...013...014...020... 021...022...023...025...028...029...030... 031...037...038... 039...043...044...053...057...060...102...103... 104 AND 105... * WIND...WEST WINDS GUSTING TO 25 MPH * HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. && $$
018 WWUS83 KEAX 192302 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 502 PM CST FRI FEB 19 2016 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ011>014-020>023-028>031-037>039-043-044- 053-200015- /O.EXP.KEAX.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160219T2300Z/ ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL- LIVINGSTON-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-CARROLL-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-CASS- JOHNSON MO-BATES- 502 PM CST FRI FEB 19 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 011...012...013...014...020...021...022...023...025...028...029...030...031...037...038... 039...043...044...053...057...060...102...103...104 AND 105... CONDITIONS STILL REMAIN DRY HOWEVER...WIND SPEEDS HAVE DROPPED BELOW CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER THRESHOLDS. $$
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.