Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this red flag warning at May 7, 2016, 4:27 AM CDT for 12 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at May 7, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 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
- May 7, 2016, 4:27 AM CDT (09:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 7, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 7, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Wadena County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:33 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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 2039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
137 WWUS83 KFGF 070927 RFWFGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 427 AM CDT SAT MAY 7 2016 MNZ005-006-008-009-013>017-022>024-028-032-080000- /O.UPG.KFGF.FW.A.0002.160507T1600Z-160508T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KFGF.FW.W.0006.160507T1600Z-160508T0000Z/ ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON- RED LAKE-EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN- SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-EAST BECKER-WADENA- 427 AM CDT SAT MAY 7 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY...FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...IN MINNESOTA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 005...006... 008...009...013...014...015...016...017...022...023...024... 028 AND 032. * TIMING...WITH SUNSHINE TODAY...TEMPERATURES WILL WARM THIS MORNING AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP LATE MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 60S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP MAY SPREAD RAPIDLY. 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. && $$ DTR
1 follow-up statement
206 WWUS83 KFGF 080005 RFWFGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 705 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2016 MNZ005-006-008-009-013>017-022>024-028-032-080115- /O.EXP.KFGF.FW.W.0006.000000T0000Z-160508T0000Z/ ROSEAU-LAKE OF THE WOODS-EAST MARSHALL-NORTH BELTRAMI-PENNINGTON- RED LAKE-EAST POLK-NORTH CLEARWATER-SOUTH BELTRAMI-MAHNOMEN- SOUTH CLEARWATER-HUBBARD-EAST BECKER-WADENA- 705 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY...FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE DECREASED AND HUMIDITY VALUES ARE SLOWLY RISING. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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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.