Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Oct 6, 2007, 10:52 AM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 8 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
- Oct 6, 2007, 10:52 AM MDT (16:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2007, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Saguache County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 2885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS85 KPUB 061652 RFWPUB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1052 AM MDT SAT OCT 6 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FOR ELEVATIONS BELOW 8500 FEET IN FIRE WEATHER ZONES 221...222...225...AND 226 THROUGH 230...WHICH INCLUDES TELLER COUNTY AND THE RAMPART RAGE...FREMONT COUNTY...THE SANGRE DE CRISTO AND WET MOUNTAINS...AND THE ADJACENT INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR...FROM 1000 AM THROUGH 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS AND GUSTS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND DRY FUELS... .THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO...IN COORDINATION WITH AREA LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING WARM...DRY...AND WINDY CONDITIONS TO THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR TODAY. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP TO BETWEEN 10% AND 15% AS WINDS CONTINUE TO INCREASE. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH DRY FUELS ACROSS THE LOWER ELEVATIONS BELOW 8500 FEET COULD LEAD TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR TODAY. COZ221-222-225>230-070100- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0002.071006T1652Z-071007T0100Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE-FREMONT COUNTY-SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- HUERFANO COUNTY-WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 1052 AM MDT SAT OCT 6 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR ELEVATIONS BELOW 8500 FEET... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD ACROSS THE REGION TODAY...WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH POSSIBLE ALONG THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP TO BETWEEN 10% AND 15% ALONG THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS BELOW 8500 FEET AND THE ADJACENT INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR. COMBINED WITH DRY FUELS...THIS WILL RESULT IN CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. 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 WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS85 KPUB 062124 RFWPUB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 324 PM MDT SAT OCT 6 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FOR ELEVATIONS BELOW 8500 FEET IN FIRE WEATHER ZONES 221...222...225...AND 226 THROUGH 230...WHICH INCLUDES TELLER COUNTY AND THE RAMPART RANGE...FREMONT COUNTY... THE SANGRE DE CRISTO AND WET MOUNTAINS...AND THE ADJACENT INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR...THROUGH 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS AND GUSTS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND DRY FUELS... .THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO...IN COORDINATION WITH AREA LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM HAS BROUGHT WARM...DRY...AND WINDY CONDITIONS TO THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR TODAY. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE DROPPED BELOW 15 PERCENT IN THIS REGION...AND COMBINED WITH DRY FUELS BELOW 8500 FEET...HAS RESULTED IN CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME RATES OF FIRE SPREAD. THESE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL 700 PM WHEN WINDS DECREASE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES SLOWLY INCREASE. COZ221-222-225>230-070100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-071007T0100Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE-FREMONT COUNTY-SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- HUERFANO COUNTY-WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 324 PM MDT SAT OCT 6 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR ELEVATIONS BELOW 8500 FEET... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL REMAIN BELOW 15 PERCENT...AND COMBINED WITH DRY FUELS...WILL RESULT IN CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR THROUGH 7 PM THIS EVENING. 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 WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
000 WWUS85 KPUB 070110 RFWPUB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 710 PM MDT SAT OCT 6 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... .THE COMBINATION OF DIMINISHING WINDS...COOLING TEMPERATURES...AND INCREASING RELATIVE HUMIDITY HAS DECREASED THE THREAT FOR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. COZ221-222-225>230-070215- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-071007T0100Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE-FREMONT COUNTY-SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- HUERFANO COUNTY-WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 710 PM MDT SAT OCT 6 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. $$
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.