Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 19, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at May 18, 2012, 3:28 AM MDT for El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado. It took effect at May 18, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 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
- May 18, 2012, 3:28 AM MDT (09:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 18, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 18, 2012, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties El Paso County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:30 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 3918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
278 WWUS85 KPUB 180928 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 328 AM MDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...HIGH HAINES INDICES AND DRY FUELS...HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM NOON UNTIL 8 PM MDT...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221...WHICH INCLUDES TELLER COUNTY... COZ221-190130- /O.UPG.KPUB.FW.A.0012.120518T1800Z-120519T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0019.120518T1800Z-120519T0200Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE- 328 AM MDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND HIGH HAINES INDICES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND HIGH HAINES INDICES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS IN AREAS WITH DRY FUELS. ANY NEW FIRE STARTS WILL LIKELY EXHIBIT EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID WILDFIRE GROWTH. * HAINES...6. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
779 WWUS85 KPUB 182058 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 258 PM MDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... HIGH HAINES INDICES AND DRY FUELS...REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221...WHICH INCLUDES TELLER COUNTY... COZ221-190200- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0019.000000T0000Z-120519T0200Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE- 258 PM MDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND HIGH HAINES INDICES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 9 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS IN AREAS WITH DRY FUELS. ANY NEW FIRE STARTS WILL LIKELY EXHIBIT EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID WILDFIRE GROWTH. * HAINES...6. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
141 WWUS85 KPUB 190148 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 748 PM MDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221 EXPIRES AT 8 PM MDT... COZ221-190300- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0019.000000T0000Z-120519T0200Z/ TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE- 748 PM MDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 221... RELATIVE HUMIDITY HAS CLIMBED BACK ABOVE 15 PERCENT OVER MOST OF ZONE 221...WITH GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS FORECAST TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH AND BECOME NORTHERLY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. $$
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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.