Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 39, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Oct 10, 2008, 12:02 PM MDT for Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 7 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 10, 2008, 12:02 PM MDT (18:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 10, 2008, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 2132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 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 101802 RFWPUB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1202 PM MDT FRI OCT 10 2008 ...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LOW HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS UNTIL 7PM FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 230...233..AND 237. THIS INCLUDES BACA COUNTY AND PARTS OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.... .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 GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES OVER BACA COUNTY AND PARTS OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.. COZ230-233-237-110100- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0039.081010T1802Z-081011T0100Z/ WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 1202 PM MDT FRI OCT 10 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. IN ADDITION...HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 13 TO 16 PERCENT. 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. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS85 KPUB 102117 RFWPUB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 317 PM MDT FRI OCT 10 2008 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LOW HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS UNTIL 7PM FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 230...233..AND 237. THIS INCLUDES BACA COUNTY AND PARTS OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.... .THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO...IN COORDINATION WITH THE AREA LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...HAS CONTINUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR TODAY. THIS WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES OVER BACA COUNTY AND PARTS OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.. COZ230-233-237-110100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0039.000000T0000Z-081011T0100Z/ WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 317 PM MDT FRI OCT 10 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. HUMIDITIES WILL GENERALLY REMAIN BETWEEN 10 AND 15 PERCENT UNTIL 7PM. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
000 WWUS85 KPUB 110051 RFWPUB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 651 PM MDT FRI OCT 10 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 230...233..AND 237 WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT... .CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED OVER THE SOUTHEAST COLORADO PLAINS...SO THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. COZ230-233-237-110200- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0039.000000T0000Z-081011T0100Z/ WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 651 PM MDT FRI OCT 10 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE RISEN AND WILL REMAIN ABOVE 15 PERCENT. GUSTY WINDS WILL DIMINISH OVERNIGHT. $$ SR
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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.