Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2015
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Apr 17, 2015, 4:00 AM MDT for Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It took effect at Apr 17, 2015, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 3 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 17, 2015, 4:00 AM MDT (10:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 17, 2015, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2015, 3:09 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:02 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
792 WWUS85 KPUB 171000 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 400 AM MDT FRI APR 17 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE ZONES 233 AND 237 WHICH INCLUDES EASTERN LAS ANIMAS AND BACA COUNTIES... COZ233-237-180200- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0013.150417T1800Z-150418T0200Z/ EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 400 AM MDT FRI APR 17 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 233 AND 237... 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 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 233 AND 237. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
263 WWUS85 KPUB 172109 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 309 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED... COZ233-237-172215- /O.CAN.KPUB.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-150418T0200Z/ EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-BACA COUNTY- 309 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 233 AND 237... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Prowers | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 8:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 8:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 29 min |
| Apr 16, 8:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 21 min |
| Apr 17, 1:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 27 min |
| Apr 17, 2:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 29 min |
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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.