Alert archive / Colorado / Red Flag Warnings in 2025
Red Flag Warning 49, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this red flag warning at Dec 22, 2025, 2:10 AM MST for 5 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Dec 22, 2025, 8:00 AM MST. 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
- Dec 22, 2025, 2:10 AM MST (09:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 22, 2025, 8:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Dec 22, 2025, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:15 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 320 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
- 2210 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
690 WWUS85 KPUB 220910 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Pueblo CO 210 AM MST Mon Dec 22 2025 COZ221-222-226-228-229-230000- /O.NEW.KPUB.FW.W.0049.251222T1500Z-251223T0000Z/ Teller County/Rampart Range Including Pikes Peak and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument- Fremont County Including Canon City/Howard/Texas Creek- Northern El Paso County Including Monument and Black Forest- Pueblo County Including Pueblo- Huerfano County Including Walsenburg- 210 AM MST Mon Dec 22 2025 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 221, 222, 226, 228, 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 8 AM this morning to 5 PM MST this afternoon. * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 221, 222, 226, 228 and 229. * WINDS...West 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 40 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
830 WWUS85 KPUB 222105 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Pueblo CO 205 PM MST Mon Dec 22 2025 COZ221-222-226-228-229-230000- /O.CON.KPUB.FW.W.0049.000000T0000Z-251223T0000Z/ Teller County/Rampart Range Including Pikes Peak and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument- Fremont County Including Canon City/Howard/Texas Creek- Northern El Paso County Including Monument and Black Forest- Pueblo County Including Pueblo- Huerfano County Including Walsenburg- 205 PM MST Mon Dec 22 2025 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 221, 222, 226, 228, AND 229... * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 221, 222, 226, 228 and 229. * WINDS...West 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...10 to 15 percent. * IMPACTS...Fires will catch and spread quickly. Exercise extreme caution with any outdoor burning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior. && $$
134 WWUS85 KPUB 222353 RFWPUB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Pueblo CO 453 PM MST Mon Dec 22 2025 COZ221-222-226-228-229-230100- /O.EXP.KPUB.FW.W.0049.000000T0000Z-251223T0000Z/ Teller County/Rampart Range Including Pikes Peak and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument- Fremont County Including Canon City/Howard/Texas Creek- Northern El Paso County Including Monument and Black Forest- Pueblo County Including Pueblo- Huerfano County Including Walsenburg- 453 PM MST Mon Dec 22 2025 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 221, 222, 226, 228, AND 229... Winds have started to lessen and humidity values have started to increase across the area. Given this, the Red Flag Warning in place will be allowed to expire. $$
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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.