Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Feb 28, 2011, 2:59 PM MST for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 2 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
- Feb 28, 2011, 2:59 PM MST (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2011, 5:20 PM MST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 2318 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
846 WWUS83 KGLD 282159 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 259 PM MST MON FEB 28 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR FAR EASTERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS ACROSS FAR EASTERN COLORADO HAVE COMBINED WITH WARM TEMPERATURES AND VERY DRY CONDITIONS TO PRODUCE A RISK OF EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH ACROSS THE RED FLAG WARNING AREA. COZ252>254-010200- /O.NEW.KGLD.FW.W.0004.110228T2159Z-110301T0200Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO- 259 PM MST MON FEB 28 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE ZONES 252...253 AND 254... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA: IN COLORADO...FIRE ZONE 252 YUMA...FIRE ZONE 253 KIT CARSON...FIRE ZONE 254 CHEYENNE CO. * WIND: 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH * HUMIDITY: RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL BE 15 PERCENT OR LESS * IMPACTS: EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH IS POSSIBLE WITH ANY FIRE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/GOODLAND
1 follow-up statement
990 WWUS83 KGLD 010020 RFWGLD URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 520 PM MST MON FEB 28 2011 COZ252>254-010130- /O.CAN.KGLD.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-110301T0200Z/ YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO- 520 PM MST MON FEB 28 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE ZONES 252...253 AND 254... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. * AFFECTED AREA: IN COLORADO...FIRE ZONE 252 YUMA...FIRE ZONE 253 KIT CARSON...FIRE ZONE 254 CHEYENNE CO. RH VALUES WILL REMAIN AT OR BELOW 15 PERCENT AT MANY LOCATIONS THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. HOWEVER...WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED WELL BELOW RED FLAG CRITERIA OVER THE WARNED AREA...AND ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DECREASE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THUS...THE RED FLAG WARNING IS BEING CANCELLED. $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/GOODLAND
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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.