Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this red flag warning at Apr 1, 2014, 4:48 AM MDT for Elbert County, Lincoln County, Colorado. It took effect at Apr 1, 2014, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Apr 1, 2014, 4:48 AM MDT (10:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 1, 2014, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2014, 6:26 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:49 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 (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 3232 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
481 WWUS85 KBOU 011048 RFWBOU URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 448 AM MDT TUE APR 1 2014 ...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL COMBINE WITH LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS TODAY OVER SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY... COZ247-011800- /O.NEW.KBOU.FW.W.0003.140401T1700Z-140402T0200Z/ SOUTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY- 448 AM MDT TUE APR 1 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 247...SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 247. * TIMING...WINDS ARE ALREADY GUSTING TO AND ABOVE 25 MPH...HOWEVER IT WILL TAKE UNTIL LATE MORNING FOR HUMIDITY TO LOWER ENOUGH. CONDITIONS SHOULD SUBSIDE JUST AFTER SUNSET...AROUND 8 PM. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 12 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...RAPID FIRE SPREAD AND EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR CAN BE EXPECTED 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 CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
2 follow-up statements
221 WWUS85 KBOU 012052 RFWBOU URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 252 PM MDT TUE APR 1 2014 ...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL COMBINE WITH LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS THIS AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY... COZ247-020200- /O.CON.KBOU.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-140402T0200Z/ SOUTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY- 252 PM MDT TUE APR 1 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 247... SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 247. * TIMING...GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. CONDITIONS SHOULD SUBSIDE JUST AFTER SUNSET...AROUND 8 PM. * WINDS...SOUTH-SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...RAPID FIRE SPREAD AND EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ANY FIRE STARTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
471 WWUS85 KBOU 020026 RFWBOU URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 626 PM MDT TUE APR 1 2014 COZ247-020130- /O.CAN.KBOU.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-140402T0200Z/ SOUTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY- 626 PM MDT TUE APR 1 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES HAVE INCREASED ABOVE 20 PERCENT. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. $$
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2014Every red flag warning in 2014
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.