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Freeze Watch 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

October 8, 20119 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this freeze watch at Oct 8, 2011, 4:43 AM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Oct 9, 2011, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 8, 2011, 4:43 AM MDT (10:43 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 9, 2011, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired: Oct 8, 2011, 2:49 PM MDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Crowley County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze watch went out at Oct 8, 12:49 AM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 12:49 AM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 8, 12:43 AM MDT, 4 hours before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 7, 11:03 PM MDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 7, 11:53 PM MDT, 4 hours 50 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
Oct 7, 8:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	20 min
Oct 7, 8:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	15 min
Oct 8, 2:49 PM MDT	Freeze Warning	PUB	Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Las Animas and 3 more	18 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in Colorado, 2011 Every freeze watch in 2011

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.