Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Grand Forks, ND
NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this red flag warning at May 22, 2016, 6:21 AM CDT for Beltrami County, Hubbard County, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. It took effect at May 22, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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 22, 2016, 6:21 AM CDT (11:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 22, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 22, 2016, 6:59 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Forks, ND
Counties Beltrami County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 3148 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
414 WWUS83 KFGF 221121 RFWFGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 621 AM CDT SUN MAY 22 2016 MNZ006-009-017-024-230000- /O.UPG.KFGF.FW.A.0003.160522T1700Z-160523T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KFGF.FW.W.0008.160522T1700Z-160523T0000Z/ LAKE OF THE WOODS-NORTH BELTRAMI-SOUTH BELTRAMI-HUBBARD- 621 AM CDT SUN MAY 22 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW HUMIDITIES...GUSTY SOUTH WINDS AND DRY FUELS FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW HUMIDITIES...GUSTY WINDS AND DRY FUELS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...IN MINNESOTA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 006...009... 017 AND 024. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * TIMING...SUNDAY AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 23 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 70S. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP MAY SPREAD QUICKLY. 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. && $$ HOPPES
1 follow-up statement
814 WWUS83 KFGF 222359 RFWFGF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND FORKS ND 659 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2016 MNZ006-009-017-024-230100- /O.CAN.KFGF.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160523T0000Z/ LAKE OF THE WOODS-NORTH BELTRAMI-SOUTH BELTRAMI-HUBBARD- 659 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR LOW HUMIDITIES...GUSTY SOUTH WINDS...AND DRY FUELS FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. WINDS HAVE DECREASED AND HUMIDITIES HAVE INCREASED THUS CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER NEAR CRITICAL. $$
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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.