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Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Oct 22, 2016, 1:14 PM CDT for 14 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 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
- Oct 22, 2016, 1:14 PM CDT (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 22, 2016, 6:16 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 2537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
543 WWUS83 KGID 221814 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 114 PM CDT SAT OCT 22 2016 NEZ039-040-046-047-060>062-072>075-082>084-230000- /O.NEW.KGID.FW.W.0013.161022T1814Z-161023T0000Z/ VALLEY-GREELEY-SHERMAN-HOWARD-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL-GOSPER-PHELPS- KEARNEY-ADAMS-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN- 114 PM CDT SAT OCT 22 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 039...040... 046...047...060...061...062...072...073...074...075...082... 083 AND 084... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 039 VALLEY... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 040 GREELEY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 046 SHERMAN... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 047 HOWARD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 060 DAWSON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 061 BUFFALO...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 HALL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 072 GOSPER...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 073 PHELPS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 KEARNEY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 ADAMS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 082 FURNAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 083 HARLAN AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 FRANKLIN. * WINDS...SOUTH AT 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...15 TO 20 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT OCCUR WILL SPREAD RAPIDLY...EXHIBIT EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR...AND WILL BE DIFFICULT TO CONTAIN. USE CAUTION WHEN ENGAGING IN ACTIVITIES THAT COULD RESULT IN A FIRE. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
060 WWUS83 KGID 222316 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 616 PM CDT SAT OCT 22 2016 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED... NEZ039-040-046-047-060>062-072>075-082>084-230030- /O.CAN.KGID.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-161023T0000Z/ VALLEY-GREELEY-SHERMAN-HOWARD-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL-GOSPER-PHELPS- KEARNEY-ADAMS-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN- 616 PM CDT SAT OCT 22 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 039...040...046...047...060... 061...062...072...073...074...075...082...083 AND 084... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. WITH DIMINISHING WINDS AND RECOVERING RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ ROSSI
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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.