Alert archive / Colorado / Snow Advisories in 2008
Snow Advisory 11, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this snow advisory at May 22, 2008, 3:38 PM MDT for Conejos County, Mineral County, Rio Grande County, Colorado. It took effect at May 22, 2008, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2008, 3:38 PM MDT (21:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 22, 2008, 6:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 23, 2008, 8:48 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Conejos County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 230 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 1381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 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 22, 3:08 PM MDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:08 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 11:18 AM MDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1118 AM MDT THU MAY 22 2008 COZ058>089-093>099-231300- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- LEADVILLE VICINITY/LAKE COUNTY BELOW 11000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- WESTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY BETWEEN 9000 AND 11000 FT- CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY BELOW 9000 FT- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST CHAFFEE COUNTY ABOVE 9000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY WEST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY EAST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- LA GARITA MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY/EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS BELOW 10000 FT- EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FEET- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500 FT- WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET- WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000 FT- WET MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500 FT/PIKES PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT-PIKES PEAK ABOVE 11000 FT- CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT-PUEBLO AND VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- CROWLEY COUNTY-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY-LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY-SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- 1118 AM MDT THU MAY 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WINDY TO VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL BE FOUND ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA TODAY. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE OVER THE FAR SOUTHEAST PLAINS WHERE WINDS WILL BE 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH. THESE WINDY CONDITIONS WILL COMBINE WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS TO CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO TODAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND THIS EVENING. ONE OR TWO THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST COLORADO NEAR THE COLORADO KANSAS BORDER THROUGH PORTIONS OF THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL INCLUDES...BUT NOT LIMITED TO...SHERIDAN LAKE...TOWNER...HOLLY...BARTLETT...AND WALSH. THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH...HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE...A TORNADO...AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THE MAIN THUNDERSTORM THREAT ACROSS THE INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR AND MOUNTAINS WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCAL WIND GUSTS UP 50 MPH. AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS ALONG THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE...THERE WILL BE SOME SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TODAY AND TONIGHT. A COUPLE INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY...WITH ONE TO FOUR INCHES POSSIBLE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL SPREAD ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AGAIN ON FRIDAY. WIND SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS. THE WINDS...COMBINED WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND DRY FUELS...MAY LEAD TO CRITICAL CONDITIONS FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO ON FRIDAY AND POSSIBLY AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS...WITH SHOWERS CONTINUING OVERNIGHT ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. SOME LIGHT SNOWFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE ABOVE 10000 FEET DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...WHERE SEVERAL INCHES OF ACCUMULATION WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A DRY LINE IS EXPECTED TO SET UP ACROSS THE PLAINS...WHICH WILL WAVER IN AND OUT OF EASTERN COLORADO FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...ALONG AND EAST OF THE DRY LINE NEAR THE COLORADO AND KANSAS BORDER. COOLER TEMPERATURES...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE...ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WILL HELP TO DECREASE THE SNOW MELT OVER THE SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. THIS WILL CAUSE WATER LEVELS IN THE AREA STREAMS AND RIVERS TO LEVEL OFF SOME. HOWEVER WARMER TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN FOR SUNDAY THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK...WHICH WILL CAUSE STREAM FLOWS TO INCREASE ONCE MORE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS MEETING REPORTING CRITERIA WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE AREA...AND WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS ALONG THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 22, 2:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
200 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0152 PM NON-TSTM WND GST LAMAR 38.08N 102.62W
05/22/2008 M58.00 MPH PROWERS CO ASOS
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DMETZEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 4:30 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers | 16 hr |
| May 22, 9:21 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PUB | Baca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Kiowa and 4 more | 19 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.