Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 45, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Nov 24, 2012, 12:06 PM MST for El Paso County, Huerfano County, Pueblo County, Colorado. 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 24, 2012, 12:06 PM MST (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2012, 5:48 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties El Paso County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 3434 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
646 WWUS85 KPUB 241906 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1206 PM MST SAT NOV 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM TODAY FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...228 AND 229...WHICH INCLUDES NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...PUEBLO COUNTY AND EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY. COZ226-228-229-250200- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0045.121124T1906Z-121125T0200Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY-HUERFANO COUNTY- 1206 PM MST SAT NOV 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...228 AND 229... 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 UNTIL 7 PM MST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...228 AND 229. * WINDS...WEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 25 TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 8 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD IF A FIRE SHOULD START. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
454 WWUS85 KPUB 242201 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 301 PM MST SAT NOV 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM TODAY FOR GUSTY WINDS... LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...228 AND 229...WHICH INCLUDES NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...PUEBLO COUNTY AND EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY. COZ226-228-229-250200- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0045.000000T0000Z-121125T0200Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY-HUERFANO COUNTY- 301 PM MST SAT NOV 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...228 AND 229... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...228 AND 229. * WINDS...WEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS 25 TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 7 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD IF A FIRE SHOULD START. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
797 WWUS85 KPUB 250048 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 548 PM MST SAT NOV 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING CANCELLED... COZ226-228-229-250200- /O.CAN.KPUB.FW.W.0045.000000T0000Z-121125T0200Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY-HUERFANO COUNTY- 548 PM MST SAT NOV 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...228 AND 229... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW 25 MPH ACROSS THE AREA. $$
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.