Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Feb 29, 2016, 9:39 AM CST for 23 counties in 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, 9:39 AM CST (15:39 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 Topeka, KS
All 23 counties
Anderson County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osage County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:42 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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 2281 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
932 WWUS83 KTOP 291539 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 939 AM CST MON FEB 29 2016 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-010000- /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0004.160229T1900Z-160301T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 939 AM CST MON FEB 29 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...WINDY CONDITIONS AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 008...009...010...011...012...020...021...022...023...024...026... 034...035...036...037...038...039...040...054...055...056... 058 AND 059... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 008...009...010...011... 012...020...021...022...023...024...026...034...035...036... 037...038...039...040...054...055...056...058 AND 059. * WIND...SOUTHWEST WINDS SUSTAINED AT 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. BY LATE AFTERNOON...WINDS SHIFT TO THE WEST AT 10 TO 20 MPH OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...BECOMING NORTHWEST AT AROUND 10 MPH THIS EVENING. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES RANGE FROM AROUND 18 PERCENT TO 22 PERCENT THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. * HIGHEST THREAT...IS LOCATED FROM REPUBLIC THROUGH OTTAWA COUNTIES WHERE RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO BE LOWEST. * 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 MAY LEAD TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
1 follow-up statement
616 WWUS83 KTOP 292358 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 558 PM CST MON FEB 29 2016 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-010100- /O.EXP.KTOP.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160301T0000Z/ REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 558 PM CST MON FEB 29 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 008...009...010...011... 012...020...021...022...023...024...026...034...035...036...037... 038...039...040...054...055...056...058 AND 059... RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL CONTINUE TO RISE THIS EVENING WHILE GUSTY WINDS HAVE BRIEFLY SUBSIDED. WINDS WILL SHIFT FROM THE NORTHWEST BY 10 PM BECOMING GUSTY AGAIN OVERNIGHT BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH POSSIBLE. $$
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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.