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Red Flag Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Mar 27, 2012, 1:28 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. 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 27, 2012, 1:28 PM MDT (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2012, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 2928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
809 WWUS85 KPUB 271928 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 128 PM MDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...THROUGH 8 PM THIS EVENING...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 227...WHICH INCLUDES SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY... COZ227-280200- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0011.120327T1928Z-120328T0200Z/ SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY- 128 PM MDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 227... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 227. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 11 PERCENT. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
375 WWUS85 KPUB 272042 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 242 PM MDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...THROUGH 8 PM THIS EVENING... FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 227...WHICH INCLUDES SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY... COZ227-280200- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0011.000000T0000Z-120328T0200Z/ SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY- 242 PM MDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 227... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 227. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 11 PERCENT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
508 WWUS85 KPUB 280138 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 738 PM MDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM... COZ227-280245- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0011.000000T0000Z-120328T0200Z/ SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY- 738 PM MDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 227... RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT ACROSS SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY. $$
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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.