Alert archive / Missouri / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO
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.
- 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
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
Red Flag Warnings in Missouri, 2016Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2016Every red flag warning in 2016
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.