Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2013
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Mar 18, 2013, 9:12 AM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Mar 18, 2013, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Mar 18, 2013, 9:12 AM MDT (15:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 18, 2013, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2013, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:02 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, 3.2 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
- 2544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
063 WWUS85 KPUB 181512 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 912 AM MDT MON MAR 18 2013 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS AND DRY FUELS...HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...1100 LOCAL TO 1900 LOCAL...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227...228...231...232...AND 233...WHICH INCLUDES FREMONT...SOUTHERN EL PASO...PUEBLO...CROWLEY...OTERO...AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES... COZ222-227-228-231>233-190100- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0004.130318T1700Z-130319T0100Z/ FREMONT COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- CROWLEY COUNTY-OTERO COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 912 AM MDT MON MAR 18 2013 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227...228...231...232 AND 233... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227...228...231... 232 AND 233. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 12 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
656 WWUS85 KPUB 182048 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 248 PM MDT MON MAR 18 2013 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS AND DRY FUELS...REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 1900 THIS EVENING...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227...228...231...232...AND 233...WHICH INCLUDES FREMONT...SOUTHERN EL PASO...PUEBLO... CROWLEY...OTERO...AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES... COZ222-227-228-231>233-190100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-130319T0100Z/ FREMONT COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- CROWLEY COUNTY-OTERO COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 248 PM MDT MON MAR 18 2013 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227...228...231...232 AND 233... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227...228...231... 232 AND 233. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
339 WWUS85 KPUB 190051 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 651 PM MDT MON MAR 18 2013 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT FOR FREMONT...PUEBLO...CROWLEY...OTERO...SOUTHERN EL PASO AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES.... COZ222-227-228-231>233-190200- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-130319T0100Z/ FREMONT COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- CROWLEY COUNTY-OTERO COUNTY-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 651 PM MDT MON MAR 18 2013 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227...228...231...232 AND 233... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT FOR FREMONT...PUEBLO...CROWLEY...OTERO...SOUTHERN EL PASO AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES. $$
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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.