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Red Flag Warning 21, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this red flag warning at May 12, 2025, 12:32 AM MDT for 23 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at May 12, 2025, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 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
- May 12, 2025, 12:32 AM MDT (06:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 12, 2025, 10:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- May 12, 2025, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
All 23 counties
Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Grant County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 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
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 313 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
- 102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
779 WWUS83 KLBF 120632 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service North Platte NE 132 AM CDT Mon May 12 2025 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS LIKELY ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE MID EVENING HOURS... NEZ206-208-209-219-130200- /O.UPG.KLBF.FW.A.0016.250512T1600Z-250513T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KLBF.FW.W.0021.250512T1600Z-250513T0200Z/ Sandhills/Valentine NWR/Nebraska National Forest- Niobrara Valley/Fort Niobrara NWR/Samuel R McKelvie National Forest-Loup Rivers Basin-Loess Plains- 132 AM CDT Mon May 12 2025 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS FOR MOST OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... The National Weather Service in North Platte has issued a Red Flag Warning for low relative humidity and gusty winds which is in effect from 11 AM this morning to 9 PM CDT this evening. The Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect. * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zone 206 Sandhills/Valentine NWR/Nebraska National Forest, Fire Weather Zone 208 Niobrara Valley/Fort Niobrara NWR/Samuel R McKelvie National Forest, Fire Weather Zone 209 Loup Rivers Basin and Fire Weather Zone 219 Loess Plains. * TIMING...11 AM CDT through 9 PM CDT Monday. * WINDS...South 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 18 percent. * TEMPERATURES...Up to 90. * LIGHTNING...None expected. * IMPACTS...Any fires which may develop, will have a high probability to spread rapidly and be 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 can contribute to extreme fire behavior. && $$ NEZ204-130200- /O.NEW.KLBF.FW.W.0021.250512T1600Z-250513T0200Z/ Eastern Panhandle/Crescent Lake NWR- 1232 AM MDT Mon May 12 2025 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS FOR THE WESTERN SANDHILLS AND EASTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... The National Weather Service in North Platte has issued a Red Flag Warning for low relative humidity and gusty winds, which is in effect from 10 AM this morning to 8 PM MDT this evening. * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zone 204 Eastern Panhandle/Crescent Lake NWR. * TIMING...10 AM MDT through 8 PM MDT Monday. * WINDS...South 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 14 percent. * TEMPERATURES...Up to 91. * LIGHTNING...None expected. Any fires which may develop, will have a high probability to spread rapidly and be difficult to control. * IMPACTS...Any fires which may develop, will have a high probability to spread rapidly and be difficult to control. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior. && $$
1 follow-up statement
347 WWUS83 KLBF 130206 RFWLBF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service North Platte NE 906 PM CDT Mon May 12 2025 NEZ204-206-208-209-219-130315- /O.EXP.KLBF.FW.W.0021.000000T0000Z-250513T0200Z/ Eastern Panhandle/Crescent Lake NWR- Sandhills/Valentine NWR/Nebraska National Forest- Niobrara Valley/Fort Niobrara NWR/Samuel R McKelvie National Forest-Loup Rivers Basin-Loess Plains- 906 PM CDT Mon May 12 2025 /806 PM MDT Mon May 12 2025/ ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... Humidity is slowly increasing and winds decreasing a bit. Thus the Red Flag Warning will be allowed to expire. $$
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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.