Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this red flag warning at Mar 6, 2016, 4:01 AM CST for 8 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 6, 2016, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 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 6, 2016, 4:01 AM CST (10:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 6, 2016, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:04 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 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 2751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
969 WWUS83 KTOP 061001 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 401 AM CST SUN MAR 6 2016 KSZ026-039-040-054>056-058-059-070000- /O.NEW.KTOP.FW.W.0007.160306T1800Z-160307T0000Z/ JEFFERSON-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 401 AM CST SUN MAR 6 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LOWER RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND CRITICAL FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 026...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 NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 026...039...040...054... 055...056...058 AND 059. * WIND...SOUTH WINDS 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO AROUND 30 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 MAY LEAD TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
1 follow-up statement
372 WWUS83 KTOP 062350 RFWTOP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 550 PM CST SUN MAR 6 2016 KSZ026-039-040-054>056-058-059-070100- /O.EXP.KTOP.FW.W.0007.000000T0000Z-160307T0000Z/ JEFFERSON-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 550 PM CST SUN MAR 6 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 026...039...040...054... 055...056...058 AND 059... WITH THE WINDS GRADUALLY WEAKENING AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE EXPECTED TO INCREASE THIS EVENING...RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS SHOULD RECOVER TO AROUND 50 PERCENT BY MIDNIGHT. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER GUSTY SOUTH WINDS UP TO 30 MPH OVERNIGHT MAY CONTINUE TO MAKE CONTROLLING FIRE DIFFICULT. $$ WOLTERS
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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.