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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Feb 21, 2014, 12:01 PM MST for 4 counties in 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
- Feb 21, 2014, 12:01 PM MST (19:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2014, 6:00 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 2365 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 380 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
346 WWUS85 KPUB 211901 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1201 PM MST FRI FEB 21 2014 ......A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FEET...PUEBLO COUNTY... HUERFANO COUNTY...AND PARTS OF WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY THROUGH 6 PM. THIS INCLUDES FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...228... 229...AND 230... COZ222-228>230-220100- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0002.140221T1901Z-140222T0100Z/ FREMONT COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY-HUERFANO COUNTY- WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 1201 PM MST FRI FEB 21 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...228...229 AND 230... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING. THIS INCLUDES EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FEET...PUEBLO COUNTY...HUERFANO COUNTY...PARTS OF WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...228...229 AND 230. * WINDS...WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR ACROSS EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY...NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY AND AREAS IN AND NEAR THE WALSENBURG REGION. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL BE POSSIBLE IF A FIRE WERE TO 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 CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
2 follow-up statements
792 WWUS85 KPUB 212201 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 301 PM MST FRI FEB 21 2014 ...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FEET...PUEBLO COUNTY... HUERFANO COUNTY...AND PARTS OF WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY THROUGH 6 PM. THIS INCLUDES FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...228... 229...AND 230... COZ222-228>230-220100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140222T0100Z/ FREMONT COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY-HUERFANO COUNTY- WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 301 PM MST FRI FEB 21 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...228...229 AND 230... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...228...229 AND 230. * WINDS...WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR ACROSS EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY...NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY AND AREAS IN AND NEAR THE WALSENBURG REGION. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL BE POSSIBLE IF A FIRE WERE TO START. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
615 WWUS85 KPUB 220046 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 546 PM MST FRI FEB 21 2014 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM THIS EVENING... COZ222-228>230-220200- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140222T0100Z/ FREMONT COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY-HUERFANO COUNTY- WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY- 546 PM MST FRI FEB 21 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...228...229 AND 230... HUMIDITY AND WINDS ARE NO LONGER AT CRITICAL LEVELS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 10:53 AM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo | 7 hr |
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.