Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2013
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Feb 17, 2013, 3:47 AM MST for 10 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Feb 17, 2013, 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 17, 2013, 3:47 AM MST (10:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 17, 2013, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2013, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:52 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 2762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
313 WWUS85 KPUB 171047 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 347 AM MST SUN FEB 17 2013 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 5 PM TODAY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226 THROUGH 237...WHICH INCLUDES ALL OF THE SOUTHEAST COLORADO PLAINS ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 25... COZ226>237-180000- /O.UPG.KPUB.FW.A.0002.130217T1800Z-130218T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0002.130217T1800Z-130218T0000Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- HUERFANO COUNTY-WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-CROWLEY COUNTY- OTERO COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-KIOWA COUNTY-BENT COUNTY- PROWERS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 347 AM MST SUN FEB 17 2013 ...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 226...227...228...229...230...231...232...233... 234...235...236 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. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...227...228...229... 230...231...232...233...234...235...236 AND 237. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * TIMING...LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...5 TO 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...A COMBINATION OF LOW HUMIDITIES...GUSTY WINDS AND WIDESPREAD DRY FUELS...WILL CREATE HIGH FIRE DANGER. BURNING OR THE USE OF MACHINERY COULD LEAD TO UNCONTROLLED FIRES IN AREAS OF SUSCEPTIBLE FUELS. IF A FIRE STARTS...RAPID GROWTH AND SPREAD OF THE FIRE WILL BE 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
084 WWUS85 KPUB 172200 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 300 PM MST SUN FEB 17 2013 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM TODAY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226 THROUGH 237...WHICH INCLUDES ALL OF THE SOUTHEAST COLORADO PLAINS ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 25... COZ226>237-180000- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130218T0000Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- HUERFANO COUNTY-WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-CROWLEY COUNTY- OTERO COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-KIOWA COUNTY-BENT COUNTY- PROWERS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 300 PM MST SUN FEB 17 2013 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR LOW HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...227...228...229...230...231...232...233...234...235... 236 AND 237... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...227...228...229... 230...231...232...233...234...235...236 AND 237. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 10 TO 20 WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 5 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...A COMBINATION OF LOW HUMIDITIES...GUSTY WINDS AND WIDESPREAD DRY FUELS...WILL CREATE HIGH FIRE DANGER. BURNING OR THE USE OF MACHINERY COULD LEAD TO UNCONTROLLED FIRES IN AREAS OF SUSCEPTIBLE FUELS. IF A FIRE STARTS...RAPID GROWTH AND SPREAD OF THE FIRE WILL BE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
947 WWUS85 KPUB 172349 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 449 PM MST SUN FEB 17 2013 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE SOUTHEAST COLORADO PLAINS WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST... COZ226>237-180100- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130218T0000Z/ NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- HUERFANO COUNTY-WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-CROWLEY COUNTY- OTERO COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-KIOWA COUNTY-BENT COUNTY- PROWERS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 449 PM MST SUN FEB 17 2013 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 226...227...228...229...230...231...232...233...234...235... 236 AND 237... $$
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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.