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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

January 14, 20064 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter storm watch at Jan 14, 2006, 5:01 AM MST for 4 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jan 15, 2006, 6:00 AM MST. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 14, 2006, 5:01 AM MST (12:01 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 15, 2006, 6:00 AM MST
Expired: Jan 16, 2006, 4:39 AM MST
In force: 23 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Conejos County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 218 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 244 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2266 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm watch went out at Jan 14, 3:41 AM MST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 3:41 AM MST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 13, 6:52 AM MST, 22 hours 9 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 14, 3:50 PM MST	Snow Advisory	PUB	Chaffee, Lake, Saguache	37 hr
Jan 14, 3:50 PM MST	Winter Storm Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Costilla, Crowley and 11 more	49 hr
Jan 14, 3:50 PM MST	Winter Storm Warning	PUB	Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache	37 hr

Nearby

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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.