Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2007

Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

October 30, 2007Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Oct 30, 2007, 4:12 AM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It took effect at Oct 30, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT. 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: Oct 30, 2007, 4:12 AM MDT (10:12 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 30, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Oct 30, 2007, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:16 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 240 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2953 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS85 KPUB 301012
RFWPUB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
412 AM MDT TUE OCT 30 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...WIND GUSTS...AND DRY
FUELS FOR ZONE 237...WHICH IS BACA COUNTY...

.THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COORDINATION WITH AREA LAND
MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING. SOUTH TO
SOUTHWEST WINDS WITH FREQUENT GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 25 MPH WILL
DEVELOP ACROSS BACA COUNTY DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE WINDS...IN
COMBINATION WITH LOW DAY TIME RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND DRY
FUELS...WILL RESULT IN CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE
BEHAVIOR.

COZ237-310000-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0005.071030T1800Z-071031T0000Z/
BACA COUNTY-
412 AM MDT TUE OCT 30 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM MDT THIS
AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM MDT THIS
AFTERNOON. 

THIS RED FLAG WARNING COVERS BACA COUNTY.  

SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH...WITH FREQUENT GUSTS IN
EXCESS OF 25 MPH WILL DEVELOP BY MIDDAY. IN ADDITION...RELATIVE
HUMIDITIES WILL FALL BELOW 15 PERCENT FOR MUCH OF THE AFTERNOON.
THE WINDS COMBINED WITH THE LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS WILL
RESULT IN CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND HIGH
RATES OF FIRE SPREAD. THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE MORE
PREVALENT OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF BACA COUNTY.

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 302123
RFWPUB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
323 PM MDT TUE OCT 30 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...WIND GUSTS...
AND DRY FUELS FOR ZONE 237...BACA COUNTY...UNTIL 6 PM MDT...

.THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COORDINATION WITH AREA LAND
MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...HAS CONTINUED A RED FLAG WARNING. SOUTH TO
SOUTHWEST WINDS WITH FREQUENT GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 25 MPH WILL
BLOW ACROSS BACA COUNTY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THE
WINDS...IN COMBINATION WITH LOW DAY TIME RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND
DRY FUELS...WILL RESULT IN CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE
BEHAVIOR.

COZ237-310000-
/O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-071031T0000Z/
BACA COUNTY-
323 PM MDT TUE OCT 30 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS
AFTERNOON...

A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS
AFTERNOON. 

THIS RED FLAG WARNING COVERS BACA COUNTY.

SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH...WITH FREQUENT GUSTS IN
EXCESS OF 25 MPH WILL BLOW THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. IN
ADDITION...RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BE BELOW 10 PERCENT. THE
WINDS COMBINED WITH THE LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS WILL RESULT
IN CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND HIGH RATES
OF FIRE SPREAD.

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.

$$

LW

000 
WWUS85 KPUB 302356
RFWPUB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
556 PM MDT TUE OCT 30 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON...

.A COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE THROUGH EASTERN COLORADO
LATER TONIGHT. 

COZ237-310100-
/O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-071031T0000Z/
BACA COUNTY-
556 PM MDT TUE OCT 30 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON...

THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON.

THE GENERAL WEATHER TREND WILL BE FOR TEMPERATURES TO COOL...
HUMIDITY LEVELS TO INCREASE...AND WIND SPEEDS TO DECREASE
BELOW RED FLAG WARNING CRITERIA THIS EVENING ACROSS BACA
COUNTY. THUS...THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT
THIS AFTERNOON.

$$

METZE

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.