Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Mar 3, 2011, 3:49 AM MST for 4 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Mar 3, 2011, 11:00 AM MST. 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
- Mar 3, 2011, 3:49 AM MST (10:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 3, 2011, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2011, 6:00 PM MST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties El Paso County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:55 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 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 3509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
597 WWUS85 KPUB 031049 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 349 AM MST THU MAR 3 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 227 THROUGH 230...AND 233. THIS INCLUDES SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...PUEBLO COUNTY...HUERFANO COUNTY..AND THE LOWER ELEVATIONS OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. THIS RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING THROUGH 6 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THE WARNING IS FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...STRONG WEST WIND GUSTS AND DRY FUELS. .THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO...IN COORDINATION WITH AREA LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE I-25 CORRIDOR REGION. GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THIS AFTERNOON. ERRATIC FIRE BEHAVIOR AND EXTREME RATES OF FIRE SPREAD WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY FIRE STARTS ACROSS THE WARNING AREA. COZ227>230-233-040100- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0007.110303T1800Z-110304T0100Z/ SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY-HUERFANO COUNTY- WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 349 AM MST THU MAR 3 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 227...228...229...230 AND 233... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 227...228...229...230 AND 233. * WIND...WEST WIND 15 TO 30 MPH. * HUMIDITY...10 TO 15% * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID RATES OF FIRE 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. && $$ HODANISH
2 follow-up statements
219 WWUS85 KPUB 032142 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 242 PM MST THU MAR 3 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 227 THROUGH 230...AND 233. THIS INCLUDES SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...PUEBLO COUNTY...HUERFANO COUNTY..AND THE LOWER ELEVATIONS OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. THIS RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 6 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THE WARNING IS FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...STRONG WEST WIND GUSTS AND DRY FUELS. .THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO...IN COORDINATION WITH AREA LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...HAS CONTINUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE I-25 CORRIDOR REGION. GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES HAVE RESULTED IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 6 PM. ERRATIC FIRE BEHAVIOR AND EXTREME RATES OF FIRE SPREAD WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY FIRE STARTS ACROSS THE WARNING AREA. COZ227>230-233-040100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0007.000000T0000Z-110304T0100Z/ SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY-HUERFANO COUNTY- WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 242 PM MST THU MAR 3 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 227... 228...229...230 AND 233... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 227...228...229...230 AND 233. * WIND...WEST WIND 20 TO 30 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * HUMIDITY...7 TO 13% * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID RATES OF FIRE SPREAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
256 WWUS85 KPUB 040118 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 618 PM MST THU MAR 3 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR HAS EXPIRED... .WINDS WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING...ALONG WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY GRADUALLY CLIMBING ABOVE 15 PERCENT. COZ227>230-233-040230- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0007.000000T0000Z-110304T0100Z/ SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY-HUERFANO COUNTY- WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 618 PM MST THU MAR 3 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 227... 228...229...230 AND 233... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WINDS WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING...ALONG WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY GRADUALLY CLIMBING ABOVE 15 PERCENT. $$
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.