Alert archive / Kansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2021
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Feb 27, 2021, 1:57 AM CST for 6 counties in Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado. It took effect at Feb 27, 2021, 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
- Feb 27, 2021, 1:57 AM CST (07:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 27, 2021, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2021, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 2438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
498 WWUS83 KGLD 270757 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Goodland KS 1257 AM MST Sat Feb 27 2021 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS SOUTH OF I-70 THIS AFTERNOON... ...OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT ADVISED TODAY... COZ254-KSZ027>029-041-042-280000- /O.UPG.KGLD.FW.A.0002.210227T1800Z-210228T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.W.0004.210227T1800Z-210228T0000Z/ Cheyenne-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita- 1257 AM MST Sat Feb 27 2021 /157 AM CST Sat Feb 27 2021/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM MST /NOON CST/ THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 027...028...029...041... 042 AND 254... The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a Red Flag Warning for wind and low relative humidity, which is in effect from 11 AM MST /noon CST/ this morning to 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ this afternoon. The Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect. * Affected Area...In Colorado...Fire Weather Zone 254 Cheyenne. In Kansas...Fire Weather Zone 027 Wallace...Fire Weather Zone 028 Logan...Fire Weather Zone 029 Gove...Fire Weather Zone 041 Greeley and Fire Weather Zone 042 Wichita. * Winds...West Southwest to West Northwest at 20-30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. * Relative Humidity...10 to 20 percent. * Impacts...Extreme and unpredictable fire behavior. Any fires that start may rapidly grow and spread out of control. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Avoid outdoor burning. Repeating, outdoor burning is not advised today. Any fires that start may rapidly grow and spread out of control. && $$ For more information from NOAA/National Weather Service visit... http://weather.gov/gld
2 follow-up statements
403 WWUS83 KGLD 270824 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Goodland KS 124 AM MST Sat Feb 27 2021 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE TRI-STATE AREA THIS AFTERNOON... ...OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT ADVISED TODAY... KSZ016-280000- /O.EXA.KGLD.FW.W.0004.210227T1800Z-210228T0000Z/ Graham- 224 AM CST Sat Feb 27 2021 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 016... The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a Red Flag Warning for wind and low relative humidity, which is in effect from noon today to 6 PM CST this evening. * Affected Area...In Kansas...Fire Weather Zone 016 Graham. * Winds...West Southwest to West Northwest at 20-30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. * Relative Humidity...10 to 20 percent. * Impacts...Extreme and unpredictable fire behavior. Any fires that start may rapidly grow and spread out of control. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Avoid outdoor burning. Repeating, outdoor burning is not advised today. Any fires that start may rapidly grow and spread out of control. && $$ COZ254-KSZ027>029-041-042-280000- /O.CON.KGLD.FW.W.0004.210227T1800Z-210228T0000Z/ Cheyenne-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita- 124 AM MST Sat Feb 27 2021 /224 AM CST Sat Feb 27 2021/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM MST /NOON CST/ THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 027...028...029... 041...042 AND 254... * Affected Area...In Colorado...Fire Weather Zone 254 Cheyenne. In Kansas...Fire Weather Zone 027 Wallace...Fire Weather Zone 028 Logan...Fire Weather Zone 029 Gove...Fire Weather Zone 041 Greeley and Fire Weather Zone 042 Wichita. * Winds...West Southwest to West Northwest at 20-30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. * Relative Humidity...10 to 20 percent. * Impacts...Extreme and unpredictable fire behavior. Any fires that start may rapidly grow and spread out of control. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Avoid outdoor burning. Repeating, outdoor burning is not advised today. Any fires that start may rapidly grow and spread out of control. && $$ For more information from NOAA/National Weather Service visit... http://weather.gov/gld
413 WWUS83 KGLD 270826 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Goodland KS 126 AM MST Sat Feb 27 2021 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE TRI-STATE AREA THIS AFTERNOON... ...OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT ADVISED TODAY... COZ254-KSZ016-027>029-041-042-280000- /O.CON.KGLD.FW.W.0004.210227T1800Z-210228T0000Z/ Cheyenne-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita- 126 AM MST Sat Feb 27 2021 /226 AM CST Sat Feb 27 2021/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM MST /NOON CST/ THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MST /6 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 027...028...029... 041...042 AND 254... * Affected Area...In Colorado...Fire Weather Zone 254 Cheyenne. In Kansas...Fire Weather Zone 016 Graham...Fire Weather Zone 027 Wallace...Fire Weather Zone 028 Logan...Fire Weather Zone 029 Gove...Fire Weather Zone 041 Greeley and Fire Weather Zone 042 Wichita. * Winds...West Southwest to West Northwest at 20-30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. * Relative Humidity...10 to 20 percent. * Impacts...Extreme and unpredictable fire behavior. Any fires that start may rapidly grow and spread out of control. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Avoid outdoor burning. Repeating, outdoor burning is not advised today. Any fires that start may rapidly grow and spread out of control. && $$ For more information from NOAA/National Weather Service visit... http://weather.gov/gld
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.