Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Feb 25, 2012, 4:21 AM MST for Baca County, Colorado. It took effect at Feb 25, 2012, 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
- Feb 25, 2012, 4:21 AM MST (11:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2012, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2012, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 6 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 11:20 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 00:00Z, 11.4 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
- 3222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
533 WWUS85 KPUB 251121 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 421 AM MST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...AND GUSTY WINDS HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR TODAY BETWEEN 1100 AND 1700 LOCAL TIME FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237...WHICH INCLUDES BACA COUNTY... COZ237-260000- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0002.120225T1800Z-120226T0000Z/ BACA COUNTY- 421 AM MST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WITH RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD POSSIBLE. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
955 WWUS85 KPUB 252215 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 315 PM MST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...AND GUSTY WINDS REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1700 LOCAL TIME FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237...WHICH INCLUDES BACA COUNTY... COZ237-260000- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120226T0000Z/ BACA COUNTY- 315 PM MST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237 WHICH INCLUDE ALL OF BACA COUNTY. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 9 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WITH RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD POSSIBLE. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH THIS EVENING...ALONG WITH A GRADUAL CLIMB IN RELATIVE HUMIDITY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
798 WWUS85 KPUB 252354 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 454 PM MST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS THAT HAS BEEN IN EFFECT FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237...BACA COUNTY...WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST... COZ237-260100- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120226T0000Z/ BACA COUNTY- 454 PM MST SAT FEB 25 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 237... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. RED FLAG CONDITIONS WILL DIMINISH OVER THE NEXT HOUR. WINDS AND HUMIDITIES WILL MOVE OUT OF CRITICAL RANGES. CONSEQUENTLY...THE RED FLAG WARNING THAT HAS BEEN IN EFFECT WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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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.