Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2015
Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Apr 16, 2015, 3:54 AM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 16, 2015, 10:36 AM MDT. 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
- Apr 16, 2015, 3:54 AM MDT (09:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2015, 10:36 AM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2015, 4:23 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:57 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 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 2853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
453 WWUS85 KPUB 160954 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 354 AM MDT THU APR 16 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON UNTIL 7 PM TODAY FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE ZONE 224...WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... COZ224-170100- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0012.150416T1800Z-150417T0100Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY- 354 AM MDT THU APR 16 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224... 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 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 12 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...POTENTIAL FOR RAPID FIRE IGNITION...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 CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
3 follow-up statements
804 WWUS85 KPUB 161636 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1036 AM MDT THU APR 16 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM TODAY FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE ZONE 224...WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... COZ224-170100- /O.EXT.KPUB.FW.W.0012.150416T1636Z-150417T0100Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY- 1036 AM MDT THU APR 16 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 12 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...POTENTIAL FOR RAPID FIRE IGNITION...GROWTH AND SPREAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
974 WWUS85 KPUB 162102 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 302 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS... LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE ZONE 224...WHICH INCLUDES THE SAN LUIS VALLEY... COZ224-170100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0012.000000T0000Z-150417T0100Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY- 302 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 11 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...POTENTIAL FOR RAPID FIRE IGNITION...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 CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
862 WWUS85 KPUB 162223 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 423 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELED... COZ224-162330- /O.CAN.KPUB.FW.W.0012.000000T0000Z-150417T0100Z/ SAN LUIS VALLEY- 423 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 224... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE RISING ABOVE 30 PERCENT AND SCATTERED SHOWERS ARE MOVING THROUGH THE SAN LUIS VALLEY...SO RED FLAG CONDITIONS HAVE ENDED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:26 AM MDT | Winter Storm Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 5 more | 48 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:26 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 8 more | 68 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 28 min |
| Apr 16, 5:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 30 min |
| Apr 16, 5:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 5:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 49 min |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Colorado, 2015Every red flag warning in 2015
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.