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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

March 18, 201115 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this fire weather watch at Mar 18, 2011, 6:25 PM MDT for 15 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Mar 21, 2011, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 18, 2011, 6:25 PM MDT (00:25 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 21, 2011, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 19, 2011, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Baca County, CO, Bent 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, Saguache County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 387 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Grand Junction, CO at 00:00Z on 2011-03-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 00:00Z on 2011-03-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 19, 4:11 AM MDTRed Flag WarningPUBCostilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Las Animas and 2 more15 hr
Mar 19, 3:27 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPUBBaca, Bent, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, El Paso and 9 more53 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.