Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Apr 16, 2008, 5:01 AM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 16, 2008, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Apr 16, 2008, 5:01 AM MDT (11:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2008, 9:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2008, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:01 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 5564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 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 161101 RFWPUB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 501 AM MDT WED APR 16 2008 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND DRY FUELS...IS EXPECTED FROM 0900 THROUGH 1800 LOCAL...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224 BELOW 8000 FEET...WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... .THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO...IN COORDINATION WITH AREA LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING FOR THE SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8000 FEET. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING...WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES DROPPING BELOW 15%. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH THE HIGH FIRE DANGER WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER PARAMETERS...WITH EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR POSSIBLE WITH ANY WILD FIRE STARTS. COZ224-170000- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0008.080416T1500Z-080417T0000Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY- 501 AM MDT WED APR 16 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY BY MID MORNING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE EXPERIENCED POOR RECOVERY OVERNIGHT...AND WITH THE INCREASE IN WINDS...WILL QUICKLY DROP BELOW 15% BY AFTERNOON. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH THE DRY FUELS...WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. A DEVELOPING STORM SYSTEM WILL SPREAD RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY TONIGHT. 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. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS85 KPUB 162106 RFWPUB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 306 PM MDT WED APR 16 2008 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND DRY FUELS...IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1800 LOCAL...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224 BELOW 8000 FEET...WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... .THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO...IN COORDINATION WITH AREA LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...IS CONTINUING A RED FLAG WARNING THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING FOR THE SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8000 FEET. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS HAVE SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA TODAY...WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES DROPPING BELOW 15%. COMBINED WITH THE HIGH FIRE DANGER...THIS WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER PARAMETERS...WITH EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR POSSIBLE WITH ANY WILD FIRE STARTS. COZ224-170000- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-080417T0000Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY- 306 PM MDT WED APR 16 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BELOW 15% HAVE CONTINUED ACROSS THE AREA. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH THE DRY FUELS...WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. A DEVELOPING STORM SYSTEM WILL SPREAD RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY TONIGHT. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
000 WWUS85 KPUB 170000 RFWPUB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 600 PM MDT WED APR 16 2008 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE SAN LUIS VALLEY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING.. .MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER THE SAN LUIS VALLEY THIS EVENING...AS AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM DEVELOPS OVER COLORADO. THIS WEATHER SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE IMPROVING FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER THE AREA TONIGHT...WITH EVEN A FEW RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS POSSIBLE BY EARLY MORNING. COZ224-170100- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-080417T0000Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY- 600 PM MDT WED APR 16 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES HAVE IMPROVED TO ABOVE 15 PERCENT...AND THE THREAT OF WIDESPREAD CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS HAS ENDED ACROSS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:19 AM MDT | Snow Advisory | PUB | Chaffee, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, Lake, Saguache | 25 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:19 AM MDT | Winter Storm Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 6 more | 32 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:12 AM MDT | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | PUB | Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo and 1 more | 29 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2008Every red flag warning in 2008
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.