{"id":111193,"date":"2026-01-05T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111193\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:32:13","slug":"red-flag-warnings-in-effect-across-parts-of-colorado-oklahoma-and-texas-panhandle-on-january-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111193\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Flag Warnings in effect across parts of Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas Panhandle on January 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service (NWS) offices in Pueblo, Colorado; Norman, Oklahoma; and Amarillo, Texas issued Red Flag Warnings for portions of southern and eastern Colorado, western Oklahoma, and the Texas Panhandle through Monday afternoon and early evening.<\/p>\n<p>The warning areas are forecast to see low relative humidity along with dry winds, increasing fire danger across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Red Flag Warnings are in effect for Fire Weather Zones 227 to 233, including Pueblo, Huerfano, Las Animas, Crowley, Otero, and El Paso counties, in Colorado. These warnings are valid from 10:00 to 17:00 MST on Monday. West winds of 24\u201340 km\/h (15\u201325 mph) with gusts up to 64 km\/h (40 mph) are expected, and relative humidity values may fall as low as 12\u201315 percent are forecast across the region.<\/p>\n<p>NWS Norman office put Roger Mills, Beckham, and Harmon counties in Oklahoma under a Red Flag Warning, along with Hardeman County in western Texas from 12:00 to 17:00 CST. <\/p>\n<p>Southwest winds of 16\u201332 km\/h (10\u201320 mph) with gusts up to 48 km\/h (30 mph) and relative humidity as low as 12 percent are expected. Forecast high temperatures near 28\u00b0C (83\u00b0F) will further dry surface fuels in the region.<\/p>\n<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Red-flag-warning-timeline-graphic.webp.webp\" alt=\"Red flag warning timeline graphic for January 5, 2026\" class=\"wp-image-240739\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Image credit: The Watchers<\/p>\n<p>Red Flag Warnings are in effect for much of the south and central Texas Panhandle, including Roberts, Hemphill, Oldham, Potter, Carson, Gray, Wheeler, Deaf Smith, Randall, Armstrong, Donley, Collingsworth, and Palo Duro Canyon areas. The warning is effect from 11:00 to 6:00 CST. <\/p>\n<p>Westerly winds of 24\u201340 km\/h (15\u201325 mph) are forecast across the region with gusts nearing  64 km\/h (40 mph), and relative humidity values falling near 10 percent. These conditions are rated low-end critical but sufficient to support rapid fire growth if ignition occurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service (NWS) offices in Pueblo, Colorado; Norman, Oklahoma; and Amarillo, Texas issued Red Flag Warnings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[943,49397,2926,18400,27,29,28,13888,15688],"class_list":["post-111193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-colorado","tag-critical-fire-weather","tag-oklahoma","tag-red-flag-warning","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-us-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}