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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO

February 29, 20167 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this red flag warning at Feb 29, 2016, 9:51 AM CST for 7 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Feb 29, 2016, 1:00 PM CST. It was in force for 5 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 29, 2016, 9:51 AM CST (15:51 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 29, 2016, 1:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 29, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
All 22 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, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:48 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 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 99 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2016-02-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2016-02-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 179 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2281 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

830 
WWUS83 KEAX 291551
RFWEAX

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
951 AM CST MON FEB 29 2016

...DRY AND WINDY THIS AFTERNOON...

.WHILE HUMIDITY VALUES AND WIND HAVE BEEN RATHER BENIGN THIS
MORNING...COMPARED TO THIS WEEKEND...BY THIS AFTERNOON BOUNDARY
LAYER MIXING WILL ONCE AGAIN LIKELY INDUCE CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS
FOR A FEW HOURS. FOCUS FOR THE DRIEST AND WINDEST AREAS WILL BE
ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS INTO FAR NORTHWEST MISSOURI...AREAS
ALONG WEST AND NORTH OF I-35.

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001-002-004-011>014-020>022-028>030-037-
043-010000-
/O.NEW.KEAX.FW.W.0003.160229T1900Z-160301T0000Z/
ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-
JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-GENTRY-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-
BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-JACKSON-CASS-
951 AM CST MON FEB 29 2016

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM
CST THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND WINDY CONDITIONS FOR
FIRE WEATHER ZONES EASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL HAS
ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS
AFTERNOON TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. 

* AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 025...057...060...102... 
  103...104 AND 105. FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002...004...011... 
  012...013...014...020...021...022...028...029...030...037 AND 
  043. 

* WIND...SOUTHWEST WINDS SUSTAINED AT 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO
  30 MPH EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE ACROSS
  EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS INTO FAR NORTHWEST MISSOURI.

* HUMIDITY...MINIMUM HUMIDITY VALUES WILL RANGE BETWEEN 20 AND 30
  PERCENT ALONG THE KANSAS-MISSOURI BORDER THIS AFTERNOON.

* 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.

&&

$$
1 follow-up statement
250 
WWUS83 KEAX 292356
RFWEAX

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
556 PM CST MON FEB 29 2016

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001-002-004-011>014-020>022-028>030-037-
043-010100-
/O.EXP.KEAX.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160301T0000Z/
ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-
JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-GENTRY-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-
BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-JACKSON-CASS-
556 PM CST MON FEB 29 2016

...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR LOW
RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND WINDY CONDITIONS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES
001...002...004...011...
012...013...014...020...021...022...025...028...029...030...037...
043...057...060...102...103...104 AND 105...

LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NEXT ONE TO TWO
HOURS...HOWEVER WINDS HAVE BEGUN TO ABATE ENOUGH FOR THE WILDFIRE
DANGER TO DECREASE BELOW A CRITICAL THRESHOLD.

$$

LAFLIN

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.