Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this red flag warning at Mar 4, 2016, 3:44 AM CST for 5 counties in Missouri; 7 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 4, 2016, 12:00 PM CST. 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 4, 2016, 3:44 AM CST (09:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 4, 2016, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
Counties Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Buchanan County, MO, Cass County, MO, Clay County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Platte County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 56 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 74 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
- 1892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
516 WWUS83 KEAX 040944 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 344 AM CST FRI MAR 4 2016 ...DRY AND WINDY THIS AFTERNOON... .A WEAK...DRY COLD FRONT WILL SETTLE TOWARDS AND THROUGH KANSAS AND MISSOURI TODAY AND TONIGHT. BOUNDARY LAYER MIXING AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT WILL LIKELY RESULT IN LOW HUMIDITY VALUES THIS AFTERNOON COUPLED WITH STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS. CURRENTLY, THE EXPECTATION IS THAT CRITERIA LEVEL WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY VALUES WILL NOT REACH MUCH FARTHER EAST THAN THE MISSOURI BORDER...BUT CONCERNED PARTIES SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON CONDITIONS TODAY JUST IN CASE. KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ020-028-029-037-043-041745- /O.NEW.KEAX.FW.W.0005.160304T1800Z-160305T0000Z/ ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-BUCHANAN-PLATTE-CLAY-JACKSON-CASS- 344 AM CST FRI MAR 4 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY SOUTH WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY VALUES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 020...025...028...029...037...043...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 NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 025...057...060...102... 103...104 AND 105. FIRE WEATHER ZONES 020...028...029...037 AND 043. * WIND...SOUTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL DEVELOP TODAY WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM AFTERNOON HUMIDITY VALUES WILL DROP INTO THE 20 AND 25 PERCENT RANGE 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
992 WWUS83 KEAX 041755 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 1155 AM CST FRI MAR 4 2016 ...DRY AND WINDY THIS AFTERNOON... .A WEAK...DRY COLD FRONT WILL SETTLE TOWARDS AND THROUGH KANSAS AND MISSOURI TODAY AND TONIGHT. BOUNDARY LAYER MIXING AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT WILL LIKELY RESULT IN LOW HUMIDITY VALUES THIS AFTERNOON COUPLED WITH STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS. CURRENTLY... THE EXPECTATION IS THAT CRITERIA LEVEL WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY VALUES WILL NOT REACH MUCH FARTHER EAST THAN THE MISSOURI BORDER...BUT CONCERNED PARTIES SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON CONDITIONS TODAY JUST IN CASE. KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ020-028-029-037-043-050000- /O.CON.KEAX.FW.W.0005.160304T1800Z-160305T0000Z/ ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-BUCHANAN-PLATTE-CLAY-JACKSON-CASS- 1155 AM CST FRI MAR 4 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY SOUTH WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY VALUES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 020...025...028...029...037...043...057...060...102... 103...104 AND 105... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 025...057...060...102... 103...104 AND 105. FIRE WEATHER ZONES 020...028...029...037 AND 043. * WIND...SOUTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL DEVELOP TODAY WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM AFTERNOON HUMIDITY VALUES WILL DROP INTO THE20 AND 25 PERCENT RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. && $$
847 WWUS83 KEAX 050009 RFWEAX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 609 PM CST FRI MAR 4 2016 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ020-028-029-037-043-050115- /O.EXP.KEAX.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160305T0000Z/ ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-BUCHANAN-PLATTE-CLAY-JACKSON-CASS- 609 PM CST FRI MAR 4 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR GUSTY SOUTH WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY VALUES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 020...025...028...029... 037...043...057...060...102... 103...104 AND 105... DIMINISHING WINDS AND RISING HUMIDITY HAS ALLOWED THE RED FLAG WARNING TO EXPIRE. $$
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.