Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 28, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Oct 18, 2016, 4:22 AM MDT for Las Animas County, Otero County, Colorado. It took effect at Oct 18, 2016, 1:00 PM 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
- Oct 18, 2016, 4:22 AM MDT (10:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 18, 2016, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2016, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:20 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 2388 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
156 WWUS85 KPUB 181022 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 422 AM MDT TUE OCT 18 2016 ...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM TODAY FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES FOR FIRE ZONES 230...232 AND 233...WHICH INCLUDES LAS ANIMAS AND OTERO COUNTIES... COZ230-232-233-190100- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0028.161018T1900Z-161019T0100Z/ WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY INCLUDING TRINIDAD AND THATCHER- OTERO COUNTY INCLUDING LA JUNTA AND WESTERN COMANCHE GRASSLANDS- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY INCLUDING PINON CANYON- 422 AM MDT TUE OCT 18 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 230...232 AND 233... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 230...232 AND 233. * WINDS...SOUTH 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...FIRES MAY IGNITE...GROW AND SPREAD RAPIDLY. 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 HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
2 follow-up statements
408 WWUS85 KPUB 182046 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 246 PM MDT TUE OCT 18 2016 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES FOR FIRE ZONES 230...232 AND 233... WHICH INCLUDES LAS ANIMAS AND OTERO COUNTIES... COZ230-232-233-190100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0028.000000T0000Z-161019T0100Z/ WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY INCLUDING TRINIDAD AND THATCHER- OTERO COUNTY INCLUDING LA JUNTA AND WESTERN COMANCHE GRASSLANDS- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY INCLUDING PINON CANYON- 246 PM MDT TUE OCT 18 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 230...232 AND 233... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 230...232 AND 233. * WINDS...SOUTH 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 13 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...FIRES MAY IGNITE...GROW AND SPREAD RAPIDLY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
164 WWUS85 KPUB 190034 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 634 PM MDT TUE OCT 18 2016 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING... COZ230-232-233-190145- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0028.000000T0000Z-161019T0100Z/ WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY INCLUDING TRINIDAD AND THATCHER- OTERO COUNTY INCLUDING LA JUNTA AND WESTERN COMANCHE GRASSLANDS- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY INCLUDING PINON CANYON- 634 PM MDT TUE OCT 18 2016 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 230...232 AND 233... WIDESPREAD CRITICAL RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE DECREASING...THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 2:54 PM MDT | Freeze Watch | PUB | Bent, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano and 5 more | 25 hr |
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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.