Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 38, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Aug 3, 2008, 9:35 AM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Aug 3, 2008, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 5 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
- Aug 3, 2008, 9:35 AM MDT (15:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 3, 2008, 2:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2008, 7:08 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:36 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 3106 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 031535 RFWPUB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 935 AM MDT SUN AUG 3 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE POTENTIAL OF A DRY LIGHTNING OUTBREAK FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL 8 PM FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 221...222...226...227 AND 228. THIS INCLUDES FREMONT...TELLER...EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES... .THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO...IN COORDINATION WITH THE AREA LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR TODAY. THIS WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR A DRY LIGHTNING OUTBREAK ACROSS THE GREATER PIKES PEAK REGION AND PUEBLO COUNTY. COZ221-222-226>228-040200- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0038.080803T2000Z-080804T0200Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE-FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- 935 AM MDT SUN AUG 3 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. INCREASING MOISTURE IN THE MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND A WEAK DISTURBANCE IS EXPECTED TO CAUSE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE GREATER PIKES PEAK REGION AND PUEBLO COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES FREMONT...TELLER...EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES. QUITE A FEW CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. WITH THE DROUGHT CONDITIONS IN PLACE AND STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS FROM THE STORMS...GRASS FIRE AND FOREST FIRE STARTS WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS WILL LIKELY QUICKLY SPREAD ANY FIRES THAT START. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF DROUGHT CONDITIONS AND DRY LIGHTNING WILL ALLOW FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR FIRE STARTS TODAY. $$ HODANISH
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS85 KPUB 032118 RFWPUB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 318 PM MDT SUN AUG 3 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE POTENTIAL OF A DRY LIGHTNING OUTBREAK UNTIL 8 PM FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 221...222...226...227 AND 228. THIS INCLUDES FREMONT...TELLER...EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES... .THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO...IN COORDINATION WITH THE AREA LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR TODAY. THIS WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR A DRY LIGHTNING OUTBREAK ACROSS THE GREATER PIKES PEAK REGION AND PUEBLO COUNTY. COZ221-222-226>228-040200- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0038.000000T0000Z-080804T0200Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE-FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- 318 PM MDT SUN AUG 3 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED ACROSS TELLER AND EL PASO COUNTIES AT 3 PM AND WERE HEADING TOWARDS PUEBLO COUNTY. THE STORMS UP IN TELLER AND EL PASO COUNTY HAVE STABILIZED AND COOLED THE ATMOSPHERE IN THIS REGION...HOWEVER THERE STILL MAY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING ACROSS TELLER AND EL PASO COUNTIES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. ACROSS PUEBLO COUNTY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE WITH DRY LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. $$
000 WWUS85 KPUB 040108 RFWPUB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 708 PM MDT SUN AUG 3 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED... .THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELED THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE GREATER PIKES PEAK REGION AND PUEBLO COUNTY. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE RISEN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA AND THE POTENTIAL FOR DRY LIGHTNING IS NO LONGER SIGNIFICANT. COZ221-222-226>228-040215- /O.CAN.KPUB.FW.W.0038.000000T0000Z-080804T0200Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE-FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- 708 PM MDT SUN AUG 3 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELED THE RED FLAG WARNING. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE REGION THIS EVENING BUT DRY LIGHTNING IS NOT ANTICIPATED. $$ SR
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.