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Fire Weather Watch 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

February 21, 201210 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this fire weather watch at Feb 21, 2012, 8:09 PM MST for 10 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Feb 22, 2012, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 21, 2012, 8:09 PM MST (03:09 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 22, 2012, 12:00 PM MST
Expired: Feb 22, 2012, 4:02 AM MST
In force
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

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

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 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 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 Feb 21, 7:58 PM MST, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 7:58 PM MST, 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 21, 8:03 PM MST, 6 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
Feb 21, 10:57 PM MST	High Wind Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 6 more	30 hr
Feb 22, 4:02 AM MST	Red Flag Warning	PUB	Baca, Huerfano, Las Animas	13 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.