URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
208 PM MDT SAT JUL 3 2010
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR FIRE
ZONES 214 AND 216...FOR STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND
DRY FUELS...
.STRONG AND DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT IS MIXING DOWN THIS AFTERNOON
DROPPING HUMIDITIES LOWER THAN EXPECTED AND RED FLAG CONDITIONS
ARE OCCURRING. THESE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO LAST THROUGH THE
REST OF THE AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS BEFORE SUBSIDING.
COZ214-216-040200-
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CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PARK COUNTY-
JEFFERSON AND WEST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET/GILPIN/CLEAR
CREEK/NORTHEAST PARK COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET-
208 PM MDT SAT JUL 3 2010
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR
GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 214 AND 216...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING.
* AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 214...ELEVEN MILE CANYON
RESERVOIR...FAIRPLAY...GUFFEY...HARTSEL...LAKE GEORGE...SOUTH
PARK...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 216...BAILEY...CENTRAL CITY...
EVERGREEN...GEORGETOWN...IDAHO SPRINGS...NORTHERN RAMPART
RANGE...TARRYALL...WESTCREEK.
* TIMING...RED FLAG CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR THROUGH THE REST OF THE
AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING WHEN WINDS WILL SUBSIDE AND
HUMIDITIES RISE...SHOULD END BY 8 PM MST.
* WIND...SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH.
* HUMIDITY...HUMIDITIES CURRENTLY AROUND 15 PERCENT DROPPING INTO
THE SINGLE DIGITS.
* IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS...DRY FUELS AND LOW HUMIDITIES COMBINED
WITH PASSING GUSTY THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE FIRE
DANGER...RESULTING IN ANY FIRE WITHIN THE ZONES TO EXPERIENCE
RAPID GROWTH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE
OFFICIALS AND FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again - Jeanne Pincha-Tulley
Comprehensive is Latin for there is lots of bad stuff in it - Trey Gowdy
