Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 44, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Nov 21, 2012, 3:18 AM MST for Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It took effect at Nov 21, 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
- Nov 21, 2012, 3:18 AM MST (10:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 21, 2012, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Nov 21, 2012, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:18 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 3231 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
273 WWUS85 KPUB 211018 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 318 AM MST WED NOV 21 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR STRONG WINDS...LOW HUMIDITY...DRY FUELS AND PERSISTENT DROUGHT CONDITIONS HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM 1100 LOCAL THROUGH 1700 LOCAL FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 233 AND 237...INCLUDING EASTERN LAS ANIMAS AND BACA COUNTIES... COZ233-237-220000- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0044.121121T1800Z-121122T0000Z/ EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 318 AM MST WED NOV 21 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 ZONES 233 AND 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 ZONES 233 AND 237. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...7 TO 12 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WITH RAPID RATES OF GROWTH AND SPREAD ARE POSSIBLE 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
208 WWUS85 KPUB 212158 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 258 PM MST WED NOV 21 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR STRONG WINDS...LOW HUMIDITY...DRY FUELS AND PERSISTENT DROUGHT CONDITIONS REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 233 AND 237...INCLUDING EASTERN LAS ANIMAS AND BACA COUNTIES... COZ233-237-220000- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0044.000000T0000Z-121122T0000Z/ EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 258 PM MST WED NOV 21 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 233 AND 237... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 233 AND 237. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 6 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WITH RAPID RATES OF GROWTH AND SPREAD ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY FIRE STARTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
551 WWUS85 KPUB 212347 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 447 PM MST WED NOV 21 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING EXPIRES AT 5 PM... COZ233-237-220100- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0044.000000T0000Z-121122T0000Z/ EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 447 PM MST WED NOV 21 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 233 AND 237... CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. $$
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.