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Snow Advisory 10, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this snow advisory at May 12, 2008, 4:49 AM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado. It took effect at May 13, 2008, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2008, 4:49 AM MDT (10:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 13, 2008, 12:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- May 13, 2008, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Chaffee County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Lake County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:49 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 338 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
- 5609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow advisory 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 snow advisory went out at May 12, 4:22 AM MDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 4:22 AM MDT, 27 minutes before
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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.