Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 40, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Oct 18, 2012, 3:26 AM MDT for El Paso County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It took effect at Oct 18, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT. 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
- Oct 18, 2012, 3:26 AM MDT (09:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 18, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2012, 6:08 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties El Paso County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:29 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 3596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 95 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
146 WWUS85 KPUB 180926 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 326 AM MDT THU OCT 18 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS...FROM NOON UNTIL 7 PM TODAY...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...234 AND 236...WHICH INCLUDES NORTHERN EL PASO...KIOWA AND PROWERS COUNTIES... COZ226-234-236-190100- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0040.121018T1800Z-121019T0100Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-KIOWA COUNTY-PROWERS COUNTY- 326 AM MDT THU OCT 18 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...234 AND 236... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...234 AND 236. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS AROUND 30 MPH IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...AND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH IN KIOWA AND PROWERS COUNTIES. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 11 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL BE POSSIBLE...WITH RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD WITH ANY FIRE STARTS. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
696 WWUS85 KPUB 182116 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 316 PM MDT THU OCT 18 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...234 AND 236...WHICH INCLUDES NORTHERN EL PASO...KIOWA AND PROWERS COUNTIES... COZ226-234-236-190100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0040.000000T0000Z-121019T0100Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-KIOWA COUNTY-PROWERS COUNTY- 316 PM MDT THU OCT 18 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...234 AND 236... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...234 AND 236. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH WIND GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH AT TIMES. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 12 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL BE POSSIBLE...WITH RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD WITH ANY FIRE STARTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
942 WWUS85 KPUB 190008 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 608 PM MDT THU OCT 18 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING CANCELED... COZ226-234-236-190115- /O.CAN.KPUB.FW.W.0040.000000T0000Z-121019T0100Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-KIOWA COUNTY-PROWERS COUNTY- 608 PM MDT THU OCT 18 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...234 AND 236... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELED THE RED FLAG WARNING. WINDS ARE GENERALLY LIGHT ACROSS THE AREA...AND CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. $$
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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.