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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 30, 201013 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this freeze warning at Apr 30, 2010, 2:53 PM MDT for 13 counties in Colorado. It took effect at May 1, 2010, 2:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 30, 2010, 2:53 PM MDT (20:53 UTC)
In effect from: May 1, 2010, 2:00 AM MDT
Expired: May 1, 2010, 7:23 AM MDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 363 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: 1758 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 94 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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 freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 30, 3:54 AM MDT, 10 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 3:54 AM MDT, 10 hours 59 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
Apr 29, 9:01 PM MDT	Freeze Warning	PUB	Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo, Teller	11 hr
Apr 30, 3:45 AM MDT	Freeze Watch	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano and 5 more	11 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Colorado, 2010 Every freeze warning in 2010

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.