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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Springfield, MO

February 27, 2016Barton County, Jasper County, Vernon County, Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this red flag warning at Feb 27, 2016, 9:00 AM CST for Barton County, Jasper County, Vernon County, Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Feb 27, 2016, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 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 27, 2016, 9:00 AM CST (15:00 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 27, 2016, 10:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 27, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:05 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 2149 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

952 
WWUS83 KSGF 271500
RFWSGF

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
900 AM CST SAT FEB 27 2016

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-077-088-272300-
/O.NEW.KSGF.FW.W.0003.160227T1600Z-160228T0000Z/
BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-VERNON-BARTON-JASPER-
900 AM CST SAT FEB 27 2016

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR
STRONG WINDS...LOW HUMIDITY...AND DRY VEGETATION FOR FIRE WEATHER
ZONES 066...073...077...088... 097 AND 101...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. 

* AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 073...097 AND 101. FIRE
  WEATHER ZONES 066...077 AND 088. THIS INCLUDES
  BOURBON...CRAWFORD...CHEROKEE...VERNON...BARTON...AND JASPER
  COUNTIES.

* WIND...SUSTAINED SOUTH SOUTHWEST WINDS RANGING FROM 15 TO 22 MPH
  WITH GUSTS UP TO 28 MPH.

* HUMIDITY...HUMIDITY VALUES WILL RANGE FROM 20 TO 30 PERCENT THIS
  AFTERNOON.

* IMPACTS...DUE TO VERY DRY VEGETATION ACROSS THE OSAGE PLAINS OF
  SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI...ANY IGNITED WILDLAND
  FIRE WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO SPREAD RAPIDLY IN THESE
  CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON.

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.

&&

$$

CRAMER

1 follow-up statement

616 
WWUS83 KSGF 272355
RFWSGF

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
555 PM CST SAT FEB 27 2016

DEFAULT OVERVIEW SECTION
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-077-088-280100-
/O.EXP.KSGF.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160228T0000Z/
BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-VERNON-BARTON-JASPER-
555 PM CST SAT FEB 27 2016

...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR
STRONG WINDS...LOW HUMIDITY...AND DRY VEGETATION FOR FIRE WEATHER
ZONES 066...073...077...088... 097 AND 101...

WITH SUNSET...TEMPERATURES ARE BEGINNING TO DROP AND RELATIVE
HUMIDITY VALUES WILL BEGIN TO RISE. IN ADDITION...WIND SPEEDS WILL
BE DECREASING SLOWLY. WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES RISING INTO
THE 30 TO 40 PERCENT RANGE...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED
TO EXPIRE.

IT SHOULD BE NOTED...HOWEVER...THAT ELEVATED FIRE DANGER WILL
REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH THE EVENING AS SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL REMAIN
GUSTY AT TIMES AND INCREASE LATER THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS.

$$

GAGAN

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Missouri, 2016 Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2016 Every red flag warning in 2016

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.