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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this red flag warning at Apr 9, 2016, 1:57 PM CDT for 5 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 4 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
- Apr 9, 2016, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Barnes County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 1541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
314 WWUS83 KFGF 091857 RFWFGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 157 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2016 NDZ028-038-049-052-053-092300- /O.NEW.KFGF.FW.W.0001.160409T1857Z-160409T2300Z/ GRIGGS-BARNES-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- 157 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NORTH DAKOTA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 028... 038...049...052 AND 053. * WINDS...SOUTH 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS HAVE DEVELOPED AND ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH 6 PM. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 40S TO LOW 50S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT START HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO EXHIBIT EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. 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. && $$ KNUTSVIG
1 follow-up statement
004 WWUS83 KFGF 092300 RFWFGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 600 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2016 NDZ028-038-049-052-053-100000- /O.EXP.KFGF.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160409T2300Z/ GRIGGS-BARNES-RANSOM-SARGENT-RICHLAND- 600 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA... WINDS WILL DECREASE AND HUMIDITIES WILL INCREASE AS TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO FALL WITH LOSS OF SURFACE HEATING. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ HOPKINS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 4:01 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more | 14 hr |
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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.