Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2025
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Feb 4, 2025, 1:58 PM MST for Baca County, Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It took effect at Feb 5, 2025, 10:00 AM MST. It was in force for 8 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 4, 2025, 1:58 PM MST (20:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 5, 2025, 10:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2025, 6:00 PM MST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Baca County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 312 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
- 2025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
366 WWUS85 KPUB 042058 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Pueblo CO 158 PM MST Tue Feb 4 2025 ...A Red Flag Warning has been issued for portions of the area from 10 AM until 6 PM Wednesday... COZ229-230-233-237-051300- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0002.250205T1700Z-250206T0100Z/ Huerfano County Including Walsenburg- Western Las Animas County Including Trinidad and Thatcher- Eastern Las Animas County Including Pinon Canyon- Baca County Including Springfield and Eastern Comanche Grasslands- 158 PM MST Tue Feb 4 2025 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 6 PM MST WEDNESDAY FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 229, 230, 233, AND 237... The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a Red Flag Warning for gusty winds and low relative humidity, which is in effect from 10 AM to 6 PM MST Wednesday. * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 229, 230, 233 and 237. * WINDS...West 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph near the mountains. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 12 percent. * IMPACTS...Fires will catch and spread quickly. Exercise extreme caution with any outdoor burning. 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
517 WWUS85 KPUB 051005 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Pueblo CO 305 AM MST Wed Feb 5 2025 ...A Red Flag Warning has been issued for portions of the area from 10 AM until 6 PM Wednesday... COZ229-230-233-237-060100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0002.250205T1700Z-250206T0100Z/ Huerfano County Including Walsenburg- Western Las Animas County Including Trinidad and Thatcher- Eastern Las Animas County Including Pinon Canyon- Baca County Including Springfield and Eastern Comanche Grasslands- 305 AM MST Wed Feb 5 2025 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 229, 230, 233, AND 237... * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 229, 230, 233 and 237. * WINDS...West 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 12 percent. * IMPACTS...Fires will catch and spread quickly. Exercise extreme caution with any outdoor burning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior. && $$
487 WWUS85 KPUB 052128 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Pueblo CO 228 PM MST Wed Feb 5 2025 ...A Red Flag Warning has been issued for portions of the area from 10 AM until 6 PM Wednesday... COZ229-230-233-237-060100- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-250206T0100Z/ Huerfano County Including Walsenburg- Western Las Animas County Including Trinidad and Thatcher- Eastern Las Animas County Including Pinon Canyon- Baca County Including Springfield and Eastern Comanche Grasslands- 228 PM MST Wed Feb 5 2025 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 229, 230, 233, AND 237... * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 229, 230, 233 and 237. * WINDS...West 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 12 percent. * IMPACTS...Fires will catch and spread quickly. Exercise extreme caution with any outdoor burning. 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. && $$
346 WWUS85 KPUB 060043 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Pueblo CO 543 PM MST Wed Feb 5 2025 COZ229-230-233-237-060145- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-250206T0100Z/ Huerfano County Including Walsenburg- Western Las Animas County Including Trinidad and Thatcher- Eastern Las Animas County Including Pinon Canyon- Baca County Including Springfield and Eastern Comanche Grasslands- 543 PM MST Wed Feb 5 2025 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 229, 230, 233, AND 237... Humidity values are recovering to above 15 percent at this time and will continue to increase this evening. Winds will also decrease this evening. $$
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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.