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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this red flag warning at Apr 14, 2016, 3:44 AM CDT for Grant County, Otter Tail County, Wilkin County, Minnesota; Richland County, Sargent County, North Dakota. It took effect at Apr 14, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT. 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
- Apr 14, 2016, 3:44 AM CDT (08:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 14, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Grant County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:46 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 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 2783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
222 WWUS83 KFGF 140844 RFWFGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 344 AM CDT THU APR 14 2016 MNZ029>031-040-150000- /O.NEW.KFGF.FW.W.0002.160414T1800Z-160415T0000Z/ WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-GRANT- 344 AM CDT THU APR 14 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN MINNESOTA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 029...030... 031 AND 040. * WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM THIS EVENING. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 24 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...LOWER 80S. * 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. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
2 follow-up statements
128 WWUS83 KFGF 141605 RFWFGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 1105 AM CDT THU APR 14 2016 NDZ052-053-150000- /O.EXA.KFGF.FW.W.0002.160414T1800Z-160415T0000Z/ SARGENT-RICHLAND- 1105 AM CDT THU APR 14 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NORTH DAKOTA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 052 AND 053. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * TIMING...1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM THIS EVENING. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 70S TO LOW 80S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ MNZ029>031-040-150000- /O.CON.KFGF.FW.W.0002.160414T1800Z-160415T0000Z/ WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-GRANT- 1105 AM CDT THU APR 14 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * AFFECTED AREA...IN MINNESOTA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 029...030... 031 AND 040. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * TIMING...1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM THIS EVENING. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 24 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 70S TO LOW 80S. * 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. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ JAM
286 WWUS83 KFGF 150014 RFWFGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 714 PM CDT THU APR 14 2016 MNZ029>031-040-NDZ052-053-150115- /O.EXP.KFGF.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160415T0000Z/ WILKIN-WEST OTTER TAIL-EAST OTTER TAIL-GRANT-SARGENT-RICHLAND- 714 PM CDT THU APR 14 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. $$ WJB
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.