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Fire Weather Watch 45, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this fire weather watch at Jun 11, 2011, 9:03 PM MDT for 18 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 13, 2011, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2011, 9:03 PM MDT (03:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 13, 2011, 10:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2011, 2:28 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla 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, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:04 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 3098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Jun 11, 3:43 PM MDT, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 3:43 PM MDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1104 AM MDT SAT JUN 11 2011 COZ058>089-093>099-121715- 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- 1104 AM MDT SAT JUN 11 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN AND NEAR THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS AFTER NOON...AND WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE ACROSS THE I-25 CORRIDOR AND THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS AFTER 1 PM...WITH HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE...WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND LIGHTNING THE PRIMARY THREATS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...PARTICULARLY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM PEYTON TO FOWLER TO KIM. DRY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND THE SAN LUIS VALLEY DURING THE AFTERNOON WITH WINDS GUSTING UP TO 30 TO 35 MPH AT TIMES. COMBINED WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AND THE HIGH FIRE DANGER...THIS WILL LEAD TO THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND RAPID RATES OF FIRE SPREAD FOR ANY FIRE STARTS ACROSS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY TODAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND NORTHERN PORTIONS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE MOSTLY DRY...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND LIGHTNING...BUT ONLY LIGHT RAINFALL. THIS COULD LEAD TO THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ISOLATED LIGHTNING STARTED WILDFIRE WHERE FUELS ARE SUFFICIENTLY DRY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP SUNDAY AND MONDAY FOR THE SAN LUIS VALLEY...THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS AND EASTERN PLAINS SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50. HUMIDITY VALUES ARE FORECAST TO DROP INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS AND COMBINE WITH WINDS GUSTING OVER 25 MPH AND CRITICALLY DRY FUELS TO PRODUCE THE DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. DIURNALLY AND TERRAIN DRIVEN THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR THE MOUNTAIN REGIONS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AFTERNOONS. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS. DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS MEETING REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE I-25 CORRIDOR AND SOUTHEAST PLAINS. 10/27
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 11, 3:14 PM MDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
314 PM MDT SAT JUN 11 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0307 PM TORNADO 18 NW KIM 37.43N 103.58W
06/11/2011 LAS ANIMAS CO STORM CHASER
TORNADO ON THE GROUND FOR ABOUT 1-3 MINUTES. CONE WITH
DUST KICKING UP AT THE SURFACE.
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MNLocal storm report, Jun 11, 3:22 PM MDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
322 PM MDT SAT JUN 11 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0322 PM HAIL 6 E LAMAR 38.08N 102.50W
06/11/2011 M1.00 INCH PROWERS CO TRAINED SPOTTER
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:27 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Custer and 9 more | 31 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.