Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 29, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Oct 22, 2016, 3:47 AM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Oct 22, 2016, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 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 22, 2016, 3:47 AM MDT (09:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 22, 2016, 9:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 22, 2016, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 4398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
007 WWUS85 KPUB 220947 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 347 AM MDT SAT OCT 22 2016 ...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...225 AND 229...WHICH INCLUDES FREMONT COUNTY...THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS AND WET MOUNTAINS...AND HUERFANO COUNTY... COZ222-225-229-230000- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0029.161022T1500Z-161023T0000Z/ FREMONT COUNTY INCLUDING CANON CITY/HOWARD/TEXAS CREEK- SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE INCLUDING SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS/WET MOUNTAINS/LA VETA PASS-HUERFANO COUNTY INCLUDING WALSENBURG- 347 AM MDT SAT OCT 22 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...225 AND 229... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...225 AND 229. * WINDS...WEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 8 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD AND WILL BE POSSIBLE. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
176 WWUS85 KPUB 222059 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 259 PM MDT SAT OCT 22 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES...AND DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...225 AND 229... WHICH INCLUDES FREMONT COUNTY...THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS AND WET MOUNTAINS...AND HUERFANO COUNTY... COZ222-225-229-230000- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0029.000000T0000Z-161023T0000Z/ FREMONT COUNTY INCLUDING CANON CITY/HOWARD/TEXAS CREEK- SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE INCLUDING SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS/WET MOUNTAINS/LA VETA PASS-HUERFANO COUNTY INCLUDING WALSENBURG- 259 PM MDT SAT OCT 22 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...225 AND 229... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...225 AND 229. * WINDS...WEST 5 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 11 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...RAPID RATES OF FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD AND WILL BE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
721 WWUS85 KPUB 222352 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 552 PM MDT SAT OCT 22 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT... COZ222-225-229-230100- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0029.000000T0000Z-161023T0000Z/ FREMONT COUNTY INCLUDING CANON CITY/HOWARD/TEXAS CREEK- SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE INCLUDING SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS/WET MOUNTAINS/LA VETA PASS-HUERFANO COUNTY INCLUDING WALSENBURG- 552 PM MDT SAT OCT 22 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...225 AND 229... WINDS ACROSS THE AREA HAVE DIMINISHED WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES EXPECTED TO SLOWLY INCREASE THROUGH THE REST OF THE EVENING. THIS WILL ALLOW OF THE RED FLAG WARNING...IN EFFECT FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...225 AND 229...TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM. $$
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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.