Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 78, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Nov 14, 2011, 9:41 AM MST for El Paso County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It took effect at Nov 14, 2011, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 6 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
- Nov 14, 2011, 9:41 AM MST (16:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 14, 2011, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Nov 14, 2011, 4:59 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties El Paso County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 2945 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
509 WWUS85 KPUB 141641 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 941 AM MST MON NOV 14 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITY VALUES...AND DRY FUELS HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM 1100 TO 1700 LOCAL TIME TODAY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...227 AND 228...WHICH INCLUDES EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES... COZ226>228-150000- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0078.111114T1800Z-111115T0000Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- 941 AM MST MON NOV 14 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...227 AND 228... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...227 AND 228. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WITH RAPID RATES OF FIRE SPREAD AND GROWTH POSSIBLE... PARTICULARLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 25. 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
664 WWUS85 KPUB 142219 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 319 PM MST MON NOV 14 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITY VALUES...AND DRY FUELS IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1700 LOCAL TIME TODAY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...227 AND 228...WHICH INCLUDES EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES... COZ226>228-150000- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0078.000000T0000Z-111115T0000Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- 319 PM MST MON NOV 14 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...227 AND 228... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...227 AND 228. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WITH RAPID RATES OF FIRE SPREAD AND GROWTH POSSIBLE... PARTICULARLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 25. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
122 WWUS85 KPUB 142356 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 456 PM MST MON NOV 14 2011 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES... COZ226>228-150100- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0078.000000T0000Z-111115T0000Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- 456 PM MST MON NOV 14 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...227 AND 228... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED INCREASE IN COMBINATION WITH DECREASING WINDS FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING...THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO THE DECREASING THREAT FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. $$
019 WWUS85 KPUB 142359 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 459 PM MST MON NOV 14 2011 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES... COZ226>228-150100- /O.CAN.KPUB.FW.W.0078.000000T0000Z-111115T0000Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- 459 PM MST MON NOV 14 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...227 AND 228... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED INCREASE IN COMBINATION WITH DECREASING WINDS FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING...THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO THE DECREASING THREAT FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. $$
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.