Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Feb 29, 2016, 3:22 AM MST for El Paso County, Fremont County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It took effect at Feb 29, 2016, 12:00 PM 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 29, 2016, 3:22 AM MST (10:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 29, 2016, 12:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2016, 6:00 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:27 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 3341 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
208 WWUS85 KPUB 291022 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 322 AM MST MON FEB 29 2016 ...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM NOON UNTIL 6 PM TODAY FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227 AND 228...WHICH INCLUDES EASTERN FREMONT...SOUTHERN EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES... COZ222-227-228-010100- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0003.160229T1900Z-160301T0100Z/ FREMONT COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- 322 AM MST MON FEB 29 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON UNTIL 6 PM MST TODAY FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222... 227 AND 228... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON UNTIL 6 PM MST TODAY. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227 AND 228. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 GUSTING TO 40 MPH. * TIMING...NOON UNTIL 6 PM MST. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...RAPID IGNITION...GROWTH AND SPREAD OF FIRES 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 HUMIDITIES...AND DRY FUELS WILL RESULT IN THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
2 follow-up statements
009 WWUS85 KPUB 292220 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 320 PM MST MON FEB 29 2016 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM TODAY FOR GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS...FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227 AND 228...WHICH INCLUDES EASTERN FREMONT... SOUTHERN EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES... COZ222-227-228-010100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160301T0100Z/ FREMONT COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- 320 PM MST MON FEB 29 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222... 227 AND 228... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227 AND 228. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...NOON UNTIL 6 PM MST. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 11 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...RAPID IGNITION...GROWTH AND SPREAD OF FIRES WILL BE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES...AND DRY FUELS WILL RESULT IN THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
662 WWUS85 KPUB 010059 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 559 PM MST MON FEB 29 2016 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING DUE TO GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227 AND 228... COZ222-227-228-010200- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160301T0100Z/ FREMONT COUNTY-SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY-PUEBLO COUNTY- 559 PM MST MON FEB 29 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING DUE TO GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 222...227 AND 228... RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE SUBSIDING AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES ...THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM MST. $$
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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.