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Fire Weather Watch 32, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 18, 2011Baca County, Las Animas County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this fire weather watch at May 18, 2011, 4:42 AM MDT for Baca County, Las Animas County, Prowers County, Colorado. It took effect at May 19, 2011, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 2011, 4:42 AM MDT (10:42 UTC)
In effect from: May 19, 2011, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 18, 2011, 3:34 PM MDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 261 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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -1.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at May 17, 9:21 PM MDT, 7 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 9:21 PM MDT, 7 hours 21 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
May 18, 3:34 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers	28 hr
May 18, 4:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	67 min
May 18, 5:34 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	41 min

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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.