Tag: Red Flag Warning

Red Flag Warnings or Fire Weather Watches have been issued today for areas in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.

The map was current as of 7 a.m. MDT on Monday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts and maps. For the most current data visit this NWS site or this NWS site.

Red Flag Warnings or Fire Weather Watches have been issued today for areas in Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and Alabama.

The map was current as of 8:30 a.m. MDT on Monday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts. For the most current data visit this NWS site or this NWS site.

Red Flag Warnings or Fire Weather Watches have been issued today for areas in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Texas, and Oklahoma.

The map was current as of 10:15 a.m. MDT on Sunday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts. For the most current data visit this NWS site or this NWS site.

Red Flag Warnings or Fire Weather Watches have been issued for areas in Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and South Dakota on Saturday.

Interestingly, after our discussion on March 12 about the two different versions of NWS Red Flag Warning maps, and how the one at the site illustrated above did not show Red Flag areas that went into effect later in the same day, today’s map, above, shows an area in North Dakota as Red Flag even though it does not go into effect for another three hours, at 1 p.m. CDT today. Which is what they should do. The forecasters should not expect land managers and firefighters to have to visit their site every hour or two to determine if they are under a Red Flag Warning. You should be able to visit the site just once a day to see the warning areas.

The map was current as of 9 a.m. MDT on Saturday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts. For the most current data visit this NWS site or this NWS site.

Today we have two very different versions of maps showing the location of Red Flag Warnings in the United States. Both of them were produced by NOAA and the screen grabs were acquired at about 9:35 a.m. on March 12, but one has Red Flag Warnings only in Iowa and Kansas, while the other also includes areas in Nebraska, Minnesota, and South Dakota.

When you go to the site of the first one as seen below, it is possible to click on an area which pulls up a window with a link to the actual text of the Red Flag Warning for that location. Some, but not all of the detailed forecasts for the three questionable states say the Warning will not begin until this afternoon, which may be part of the reason the second one does not include those areas. One feature I like about the second one is that it includes a date and time, something the first one does not have on the main map. It also may be significant that the second one is labeled “experimental”.

Other than the differences in identifying which areas are under a Red Flag Warning, which graphic image of the map do you prefer? We had been preferring the second one lately, because it is cleaner and has a higher resolution. But if it does not include all of the Warning areas for that day, the designers of NOAA’s “experiment” need to go back to the drawing board.

Red Flag Warnings have been issued for areas in Nebraska and South Dakota on Wednesday for relative humidity in the low teens and strong winds gusting at 30 to 35 mph.

The map was current as of 8:45 a.m. MDT on Wednesday. Red Flag Warnings can change throughout the day as the National Weather Service offices around the country update and revise their forecasts. For the most current data visit this NWS site.