Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Feb 22, 2014, 3:47 AM MST for Pueblo County, Colorado. It took effect at Feb 22, 2014, 12:00 PM 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 22, 2014, 3:47 AM MST (10:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 22, 2014, 12:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2014, 6:00 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:45 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 219 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
- 3323 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
220 WWUS85 KPUB 221047 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 347 AM MST SAT FEB 22 2014 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS...FROM NOON UNTIL 6 PM TODAY...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 228...WHICH INCLUDES PUEBLO COUNTY... COZ228-230100- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0003.140222T1900Z-140223T0100Z/ PUEBLO COUNTY- 347 AM MST SAT FEB 22 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 228... 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 FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM MST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 228. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL BE POSSIBLE 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 AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
2 follow-up statements
992 WWUS85 KPUB 222150 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 250 PM MST SAT FEB 22 2014 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS...UNTIL 6 PM TODAY...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 228...WHICH INCLUDES PUEBLO COUNTY... COZ228-230100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-140223T0100Z/ PUEBLO COUNTY- 250 PM MST SAT FEB 22 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 228... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 228. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL BE POSSIBLE IF A FIRE SHOULD START. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
656 WWUS85 KPUB 230041 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 541 PM MST SAT FEB 22 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM THIS EVENING... COZ228-230145- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-140223T0100Z/ PUEBLO COUNTY- 541 PM MST SAT FEB 22 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 228... HUMIDITY VALUES WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AND WINDS WILL DECREASE THROUGH THE EVENING...ENDING THE THREAT FOR RED FLAG CONDITIONS. $$
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.