Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Feb 29, 2016, 9:43 AM CST for Thayer County, Nebraska; Jewell County, Mitchell County, Kansas. It took effect at Feb 29, 2016, 1:00 PM CST. 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
- Feb 29, 2016, 9:43 AM CST (15:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 29, 2016, 1:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:43 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 2119 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 473 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 566 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
139 WWUS83 KGID 291543 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 943 AM CST MON FEB 29 2016 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... KSZ007-019-NEZ087-010000- /O.NEW.KGID.FW.W.0002.160229T1900Z-160301T0000Z/ JEWELL-MITCHELL-THAYER- 943 AM CST MON FEB 29 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 007...019 AND 087... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 007 JEWELL AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 019 MITCHELL. IN NEBRASKA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 THAYER. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH...GUSTING AS HIGH AS 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AROUND 20 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL SPREAD RAPIDLY...EXHIBIT EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR...AND BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. USE CAUTION WHEN ENGAGING IN ACTIVITIES THAT COULD RESULT IN A FIRE. 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. && $$ GUERRERO
1 follow-up statement
051 WWUS83 KGID 292356 RFWGID URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 556 PM CST MON FEB 29 2016 KSZ007-019-NEZ087-010100- /O.EXP.KGID.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160301T0000Z/ JEWELL-MITCHELL-THAYER- 556 PM CST MON FEB 29 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 007...019 AND 087... RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES HAVE INCREASED THIS EVENING AND WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AS TEMPERATURES COOL. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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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.