Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 32, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Jun 30, 2014, 12:38 PM MDT for Chaffee County, Lake County, 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
- Jun 30, 2014, 12:38 PM MDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2014, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Chaffee County, CO, Lake County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 3769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
392 WWUS85 KPUB 301838 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1238 PM MDT MON JUN 30 2014 ...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 220...WHICH INCLUDES LAKE AND CHAFFEE COUNTIES... COZ220-010100- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0032.140630T1838Z-140701T0100Z/ UPPER ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY- 1238 PM MDT MON JUN 30 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 220... 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 ZONE 220. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL BE POSSIBLE IF A 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
030 WWUS85 KPUB 302101 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 301 PM MDT MON JUN 30 2014 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 220...WHICH INCLUDES LAKE AND CHAFFEE COUNTIES... COZ220-010100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0032.000000T0000Z-140701T0100Z/ UPPER ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY- 301 PM MDT MON JUN 30 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 220... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 220. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR WILL BE POSSIBLE IF A FIRE STARTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
183 WWUS85 KPUB 010117 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 717 PM MDT MON JUN 30 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 220 HAS EXPIRED... COZ220-010230- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0032.000000T0000Z-140701T0100Z/ UPPER ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY- 717 PM MDT MON JUN 30 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 220... WINDS HAVE BEGUN TO DECREASE OVER THE WARNING AREA...AND CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 1:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 44 min |
| Jun 30, 3:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 36 min |
| Jun 30, 4:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 89 min |
| Jun 30, 4:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 95 min |
| Jun 30, 4:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 92 min |
| Jun 30, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 85 min |
| Jun 30, 5:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 58 min |
| Jun 30, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 47 min |
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.