URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
409 AM MDT WED OCT 27 2010
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BOULDER AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES BELOW 6000 FEET/WEST BROOMFIELD
COUNTY-
NORTH DOUGLAS COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/DENVER/WEST ADAMS AND
ARAPAHOE COUNTIES/EAST BROOMFIELD COUNTY-
ELBERT/CENTRAL AND EAST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET-
409 AM MDT WED OCT 27 2010
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM MDT
THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER
ZONES 239...240 AND 241...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM MDT
THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
* AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 239...ARVADA...BOULDER...
GOLDEN...LAKEWOOD...LONGMONT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 240...
AURORA...BRIGHTON...CITY OF DENVER...DENVER INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT...HIGHLANDS RANCH...LITTLETON...PARKER...FIRE WEATHER
ZONE 241...CASTLE ROCK...ELBERT...FONDIS...KIOWA...LARKSPUR.
* TIMING...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL ONCE AGAIN
DEVELOP LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING AS WINDS
INCREASE.
* WIND...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH.
* HUMIDITY...AROUND 15 PERCENT.
* IMPACTS...THE WINDY CONDITIONS...LOW HUMIDITIES...AND DRY
FUELSWILL CREATE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR RAPID GRASSLAND
FIRE GROWTH.
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
