Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 58, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 8, 2011, 3:14 PM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 9, 2011, 12:00 PM 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
- Jun 8, 2011, 3:14 PM MDT (21:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 9, 2011, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2011, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 5220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
168 WWUS85 KPUB 082114 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 314 PM MDT WED JUN 8 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES...HIGH HAINES...AND DRY FUELS REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY THROUGH 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 221...222 AND 224 THROUGH 237...WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND ALL OF THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS... ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES...HIGH HAINES...AND DRY FUELS IS IN EFFECT FOR THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229 AND 230... WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND THE SOUTHEAST COLORADO MOUNTAINS... COZ224-225-229-230-091315- /O.UPG.KPUB.FW.A.0043.110609T1800Z-110610T0300Z/ /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0058.110609T1800Z-110610T0300Z/ /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0057.000000T0000Z-110609T0300Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY-SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE-HUERFANO COUNTY- WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 314 PM MDT WED JUN 8 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR EXISTING DRY CONDITIONS...GUSTY WINDS...HIGH HAINES INDICES AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229 AND 230... ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING FOR EXISTING DRY CONDITIONS...GUSTY WINDS...HIGH HAINES INDICES AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229 AND 230... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM MDT THURSDAY. THE PREVIOUS FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. IN ADDITION...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO IS CONTINUING THE RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229 AND 230. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229 AND 230. * WINDS...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH AT TIMES. * MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...5 TO 15 PERCENT. * HAINES...5 AND 6. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR NEW FIRE STARTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$ COZ221-222-226>228-231>237-090300- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0057.000000T0000Z-110609T0300Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE-FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- CROWLEY COUNTY-OTERO COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- KIOWA COUNTY-BENT COUNTY-PROWERS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 314 PM MDT WED JUN 8 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 221... 222...226...227...228...231...232...233...234...235...236 AND 237... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 221...222...226...227... 228...231...232...233...234...235...236 AND 237. * WINDS...EAST TO SOUTHEAST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH WIND GUSTS AROUND 30 MPH AT TIMES. * MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...5 TO 15 PERCENT. * HAINES...5 AND 6. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR NEW FIRE STARTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
4 follow-up statements
488 WWUS85 KPUB 090259 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 859 PM MDT WED JUN 8 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES...HIGH HAINES...AND DRY FUELS IS IN EFFECT FOR THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225... 229 AND 230... WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND THE SOUTHEAST COLORADO MOUNTAINS... ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229 AND 230... COZ224-225-229-230-091900- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0057.000000T0000Z-110609T0300Z/ /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0058.110609T1800Z-110610T0300Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY-SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE-HUERFANO COUNTY- WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 859 PM MDT WED JUN 8 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM MDT THURSDAY FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES...HIGH HAINES...AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225... 229 AND 230... ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229 AND 230... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM MDT THURSDAY. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229 AND 230. * WINDS...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH AT TIMES. * MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...5 TO 15 PERCENT. * HAINES...5 AND 6. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR NEW FIRE STARTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL BEGIN SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXTREME FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ COZ221-222-226>228-231>237-090400- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0057.000000T0000Z-110609T0300Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE-FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- CROWLEY COUNTY-OTERO COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- KIOWA COUNTY-BENT COUNTY-PROWERS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 859 PM MDT WED JUN 8 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 221...222...226...227... 228...231...232...233...234...235...236 AND 237... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING. $$
887 WWUS85 KPUB 091044 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 444 AM MDT THU JUN 9 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES...HIGH HAINES AND DRY FUELS IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229...230 AND 233...WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY...THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS...HUERFANO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES... COZ233-100245- /O.EXA.KPUB.FW.W.0058.110609T1800Z-110610T0300Z/ EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 444 AM MDT THU JUN 9 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES...HIGH HAINES AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 233... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON UNTIL 9 PM MDT TODAY. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 233. * WINDS...GENERALLY LIGHT EASTERLY WINDS EARLY IN THE DAY MAY SHIFT AROUND TO THE SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH AT TIMES DURING THE AFTERNOON. COULD HAPPEN EARLY AFTERNOON...BUT MORE LIKELY BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. * MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...FALLING TO 5 TO 15 PERCENT. * HAINES...5 AND 6. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR NEW FIRE STARTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$ COZ224-225-229-230-100245- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0058.110609T1800Z-110610T0300Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY-SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE-HUERFANO COUNTY- WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 444 AM MDT THU JUN 9 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES...HIGH HAINES AND DRY FUELS...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229 AND 230... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CONTINUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM TODAY. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229 AND 230. * WINDS...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH AT TIMES. * MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...5 TO 15 PERCENT. * HAINES...5 AND 6. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR NEW FIRE STARTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
403 WWUS85 KPUB 092119 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 319 PM MDT THU JUN 9 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR AREAS FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES...HIGH HAINES INDICES...AND DRY FUELS IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229...230 AND 233...WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY...THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS...HUERFANO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES... COZ224-225-229-230-233-100300- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0058.000000T0000Z-110610T0300Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY-SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE-HUERFANO COUNTY- WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 319 PM MDT THU JUN 9 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR AREAS OF GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITY...HIGH HAINES INDICES... FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229...230 AND 233... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229...230 AND 233. * WINDS...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY AND THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS...AND GENERALLY EASTERLY AT 10 TO 20 MPH OVER HUERFANO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES. * MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...10 TO 15 PERCENT. * HAINES...5 AND 6. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR NEW FIRE STARTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$
449 WWUS85 KPUB 100240 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 840 PM MDT THU JUN 9 2011 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229...230 AND 233...WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY...THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS...HUERFANO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES...WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM... COZ224-225-229-230-233-100345- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0058.000000T0000Z-110610T0300Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY-SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE-HUERFANO COUNTY- WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 840 PM MDT THU JUN 9 2011 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 224...225...229...230 AND 233...WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY...THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS...HUERFANO AND LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES...WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM... $$
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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.