Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 24, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 10, 2012, 3:35 AM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 10, 2012, 1:00 PM MDT. 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
- Jun 10, 2012, 3:35 AM MDT (09:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 10, 2012, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2012, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:32 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 5819 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
780 WWUS85 KPUB 100935 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 335 AM MDT SUN JUN 10 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224...WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... COZ224-110145- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0024.120610T1900Z-120611T0200Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY- 335 AM MDT SUN JUN 10 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...9 TO 14 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 70S. * IMPACTS...GUSTY 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. 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. && $$ SR
2 follow-up statements
472 WWUS85 KPUB 102051 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 251 PM MDT SUN JUN 10 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224...WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... COZ224-110200- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0024.000000T0000Z-120611T0200Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY- 251 PM MDT SUN JUN 10 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 9 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS IN AREAS WITH DRY FUELS. ANY NEW FIRE STARTS WILL LIKELY EXHIBIT EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID WILDFIRE GROWTH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
212 WWUS85 KPUB 110145 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 745 PM MDT SUN JUN 10 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM MDT FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224... COZ224-110245- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0024.000000T0000Z-120611T0200Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY- 745 PM MDT SUN JUN 10 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...HIGH HAINES INDICES AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224... THE WINDS ACROSS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY ARE DECREASING AND THE HUMIDITIES WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY INCREASE. $$
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.