Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 73, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Oct 2, 2011, 2:28 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It took effect at Oct 3, 2011, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 4 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 2, 2011, 2:28 PM MDT (20:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 3, 2011, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2011, 5:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 2706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 434 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
975 WWUS85 KPUB 022028 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 228 PM MDT SUN OCT 2 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS...FROM 1 PM UNTIL 7 PM MONDAY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237...WHICH INCLUDES BACA COUNTY... COZ237-031230- /O.UPG.KPUB.FW.A.0053.111003T1900Z-111004T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0073.111003T1900Z-111004T0100Z/ BACA COUNTY- 228 PM MDT SUN OCT 2 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM MDT MONDAY FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM MDT MONDAY. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237...WHICH IS BACA COUNTY. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
132 WWUS85 KPUB 031015 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 415 AM MDT MON OCT 3 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AND DRY FUELS...FROM 1 PM UNTIL 7 PM TODAY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237...WHICH INCLUDES BACA COUNTY... COZ237-040100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0073.111003T1900Z-111004T0100Z/ BACA COUNTY- 415 AM MDT MON OCT 3 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237...WHICH INCLUDES ALL OF BACA COUNTY. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...DROPPING TO BETWEEN 10 AND 15 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WITH RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD...IF A FIRE SHOULD START. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
488 WWUS85 KPUB 032106 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 306 PM MDT MON OCT 3 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AND DRY FUELS...UNTIL 7 PM TODAY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237...WHICH INCLUDES BACA COUNTY... COZ237-040100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0073.000000T0000Z-111004T0100Z/ BACA COUNTY- 306 PM MDT MON OCT 3 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237...WHICH INCLUDES ALL OF BACA COUNTY. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 12 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WITH RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD...IF A FIRE SHOULD START. 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. && $$
567 WWUS85 KPUB 032305 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 505 PM MDT MON OCT 3 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING CANCELED FOR BACA COUNTY... COZ237-040015- /O.CAN.KPUB.FW.W.0073.000000T0000Z-111004T0100Z/ BACA COUNTY- 505 PM MDT MON OCT 3 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR LOW HUMIDITY VALUES AND GUSTY WINDS FOR BACA COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. HUMIDITY VALUES WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS BACA COUNTY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237...AND RH VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO GO ABOVE 20% AFTER 6 PM THIS EVENING. GUSTY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. $$ HODANISH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 4:07 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PUB | Baca | 10 hr |
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.