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Blizzard Watch 1, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this blizzard watch at Nov 22, 2010, 2:32 PM MST for 6 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Nov 23, 2010, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 22, 2010, 2:32 PM MST (21:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 23, 2010, 11:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Nov 22, 2010, 7:51 PM MST
- In force
- 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 21:32 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blizzard 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 blizzard watch went out at Nov 22, 11:28 AM MST, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 22, 11:28 AM MST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 4:12 AM MST | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Kiowa and 4 more | 13 hr |
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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.