Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this red flag warning at Apr 9, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota. It took effect at Apr 9, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT. 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 9, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT (17:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 9, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
Counties Chippewa County, MN, Lac qui Parle County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Swift County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
253 WWUS83 KMPX 091700 RFWMPX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1200 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2016 ......RED FLAG WARNING FOR A PART OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY... .STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS FROM 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY LOWERING TO 20 TO 25 PERCENT WILL CAUSE DANGEROUS WILDFIRE CONDITIONS ACROSS SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE RED FLAG WARNING ARE LAQ QUE PARLE...YELLOW MEDICINE AND REDWOOD COUNTY. MNZ054-064-073-100000- /O.NEW.KMPX.FW.W.0001.160409T1900Z-160410T0000Z/ LAC QUI PARLE-YELLOW MEDICINE-REDWOOD- 1200 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...LAQ QUE PARLE...YELLOW MEDICINE AND REDWOOD COUNTY. * WIND...SOUTHEAST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...LOWEST HUMIDITY OF 20 TO 25 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 CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
2 follow-up statements
272 WWUS83 KMPX 091926 RFWMPX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 226 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2016 ......RED FLAG WARNING FOR A PART OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY... .STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS FROM 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY LOWERING TO 20 TO 25 PERCENT WILL CAUSE DANGEROUS WILDFIRE CONDITIONS ACROSS SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE RED FLAG WARNING ARE LAQ QUE PARLE... YELLOW MEDICINE...REDWOOD...SWIFT AND CHIPPEWA COUNTY. MNZ055-056-100000- /O.EXA.KMPX.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160410T0000Z/ SWIFT-CHIPPEWA- 226 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...SWIFT AND CHIPPEWA COUNTY. * WIND...SOUTHEAST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...LOWEST HUMIDITY OF 20 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ MNZ054-064-073-100000- /O.CON.KMPX.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160410T0000Z/ LAC QUI PARLE-YELLOW MEDICINE-REDWOOD- 226 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY... * AFFECTED AREA...LAQ QUE PARLE...YELLOW MEDICINE AND REDWOOD COUNTY. * WIND...SOUTHEAST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...LOWEST HUMIDITY OF 20 TO 25 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 CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
663 WWUS83 KMPX 100013 RFWMPX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 713 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR A PART OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA HAS EXPIRED... .HUMIDITY LEVELS HAVE INCREASED TO ABOVE 25 PERCENT ACROSS LAC QUI PARLE...SWIFT...CHIPPEWA...YELLOW MEDICINE AND REDWOOD COUNTIES IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA THIS EVENING AND WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGH THE REST OF THE NIGHT. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. BREEZY SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF THIS EVENING THEN DIMINISH OVERNIGHT. MNZ054>056-064-073-100115- /O.EXP.KMPX.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160410T0000Z/ LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-YELLOW MEDICINE-REDWOOD- 713 PM CDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY... HUMIDITY LEVELS HAVE INCREASED TO ABOVE 25 PERCENT ACROSS LAC QUI PARLE...SWIFT...CHIPPEWA...YELLOW MEDICINE AND REDWOOD COUNTIES IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA THIS EVENING AND WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGH THE REST OF THE NIGHT. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. BREEZY SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF THIS EVENING THEN DIMINISH OVERNIGHT. $$
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.