RED FLAG WARNING NO. 3
PASSAGE OF DRY SLOT OVER FIRE

RECOGNITION

Response:

• Situation Unit staff are to immediately advise the Planning Officer of an actual or imminent Red Flag situation and the potential rapid escalation of the fire when the dry slot arrives.
• Situation Unit is to establish a suitable observation capability, tasked to look out for escalation.
• Operations Officer is to ensure a heightened emphasis on safety in all sectors.
• Planning Officer to meet with IMT to develop fall-back IAP.

Detailed Material

• Mills, G.A. (2005) On the sub-synoptic scale meteorology of two extreme fire weather days during the Eastern Australian fires of January 2003. Australian Meteorological Magazine V54, pp: 265-290.
• Mills, G.A. (2007). On easterly changes over elevated terrain in Australia’s southeast. Aust. Met. Mag. 56: 177-190.
• Mills, G.A. (2008a). Abrupt surface drying and fire weather Part 1: overview and case study of the South Australian fires of 11 January 2005. Aust. Met. Mag. 57 (2008) 299-309.
• Mills, G.A. (2008b). Abrupt surface drying and fire weather Part 2: a preliminary synoptic climatology in the forested areas fo southern Australia. Aust. Met. Mag. 57 (2008) 311-328.