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Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 25, 2016, 11:46 AM CDT for 9 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 25, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Mar 25, 2016, 11:46 AM CDT (16:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 25, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2016, 8:07 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 1489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
059 WWUS83 KTOP 251646 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1146 AM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016 KSZ020>022-034>037-260200- /O.UPG.KTOP.FW.A.0007.160325T1800Z-160326T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0013.160325T1800Z-160326T0200Z/ CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- 1146 AM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 020...021...022...034... 035...036 AND 037... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 020...021...022...034... 035...036 AND 037. * WIND...SOUTH-SOUTHEAST WINDS 18 TO 22 MPH WITH GUSTS 24 TO 29 MPH. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM HUMIDITY WILL RANGE FROM 17 TO 22 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY AND BE VERY DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. 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 MAY LEAD TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ KSZ008-009-260200- /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0013.160325T1800Z-160326T0200Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON- 1146 AM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 008 AND 009... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 008 AND 009. * WIND...SOUTH-SOUTHEAST WINDS 18 TO 22 MPH WITH GUSTS 24 TO 29 MPH. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM HUMIDITY WILL RANGE FROM 17 TO 22 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY AND BE VERY DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES MAY LEAD TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
1 follow-up statement
103 WWUS83 KTOP 260107 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 807 PM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016 KSZ008-009-020>022-034>037-260215- /O.CAN.KTOP.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160326T0200Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY- MORRIS- 807 PM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 008...009...020...021...022...034...035...036 AND 037... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE RISEN INTO THE 26 TO 35 PERCENT RANGE AS THE BOUNDARY LAYER HAS COOLED THIS EVENING AND WINDS HAVE DECREASED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 3:57 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Ottawa and 1 more | 8 hr |
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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.