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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 6, 20164 counties in Ohio; Lewis County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this red flag warning at Apr 6, 2016, 1:48 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio; Lewis County, Kentucky. 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: Apr 6, 2016, 1:48 PM EDT (17:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2016, 6:27 PM EDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

Counties Lewis County, KY, Hocking County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3011 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 312 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 363 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

489 
WWUS81 KILN 061748
RFWILN

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
148 PM EDT WED APR 6 2016


KYZ100-OHZ073-074-082-088-070000-
/O.NEW.KILN.FW.W.0003.160406T1748Z-160407T0000Z/
LEWIS-ROSS-HOCKING-PIKE-SCIOTO-
148 PM EDT WED APR 6 2016

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR
WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

* AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 073 ROSS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 
  074 HOCKING...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 082 PIKE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 
  088 SCIOTO AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 100 LEWIS.

* WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH.

* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT.

* 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 WILL
CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR.

&&

$$

1 follow-up statement

817 
WWUS81 KILN 062227
RFWILN

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
627 PM EDT WED APR 6 2016


KYZ100-OHZ073-074-082-088-062330-
/O.CAN.KILN.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160407T0000Z/
LEWIS-ROSS-HOCKING-PIKE-SCIOTO-
627 PM EDT WED APR 6 2016

...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE
HUMIDITY|...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS CANCELLED THE RED
FLAG WARNING.

SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO THE
REGION...RAISING HUMIDITIES AND LOWERING TEMPERATURES. THEREFORE
THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 3:00 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	ILN	Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 20 more	16 hr
Apr 6, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	24 min
Apr 6, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Logan	36 min
Apr 6, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette, Pickaway	37 min
Apr 6, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Highland	30 min
Apr 6, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Highland, Licking and 3 more	44 min
Apr 6, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking, Licking, Ross	49 min
Apr 6, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams, Pike, Scioto	46 min
Apr 6, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	48 min
Apr 6, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Preble	63 min
Apr 6, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Auglaize, Darke, Mercer	43 min
Apr 6, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Auglaize, Hardin, Logan, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and 1 more	34 min
Apr 6, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign, Hardin, Logan, Miami	34 min
Apr 6, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Lewis	27 min

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.