Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this red flag warning at Feb 24, 2016, 9:46 AM MST for 10 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Feb 24, 2016, 11:00 AM 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 24, 2016, 9:46 AM MST (16:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2016, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2016, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:47 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 2745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
292 WWUS85 KBOU 241646 RFWBOU URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 946 AM MST WED FEB 24 2016 COZ242>251-250000- /O.NEW.KBOU.FW.W.0002.160224T1800Z-160225T0000Z/ NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-CENTRAL AND SOUTH WELD COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY- CENTRAL AND EAST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES- NORTH AND NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTH LINCOLN COUNTY- SOUTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY- LOGAN COUNTY-WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS COUNTY- 946 AM MST WED FEB 24 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR MOST OF THE EASTERN PLAINS OF COLORADO... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 242...243...244...245... 246...247...248...249...250 AND 251. * TIMING...GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE QUICKLY BY THIS EVENING WITH DECREASING WINDS. * WINDS...NORTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THE GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES WILL PRODUCE CRITICAL CONDITIONS FOR DRY GRASSLANDS. RAPID GRASSLAND FIRE GROWTH WILL BE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW OR WILL OCCUR SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND DRY FUELS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. IF A FIRE IS STARTED OR ONGOING THE POTENTIAL FOR IT TO RAPIDLY SPREAD IS HIGH. && $$
1 follow-up statement
694 WWUS85 KBOU 242238 RFWBOU URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 338 PM MST WED FEB 24 2016 COZ242>251-250000- /O.CON.KBOU.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160225T0000Z/ NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-CENTRAL AND SOUTH WELD COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY- CENTRAL AND EAST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES- NORTH AND NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTH LINCOLN COUNTY- SOUTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY- LOGAN COUNTY-WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS COUNTY- 338 PM MST WED FEB 24 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR MOST OF THE EASTERN PLAINS OF COLORADO... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 242...243...244...245... 246...247...248...249...250 AND 251. * TIMING...GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE QUICKLY BY THIS EVENING WITH DECREASING WINDS. * WINDS...NORTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...THE GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES WILL PRODUCE CRITICAL CONDITIONS FOR DRY GRASSLANDS. RAPID GRASSLAND FIRE GROWTH WILL BE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE GUSTY WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW OR WILL OCCUR SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND DRY FUELS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. IF A FIRE IS STARTED OR ONGOING THE POTENTIAL FOR IT TO RAPIDLY SPREAD IS HIGH. && $$
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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.