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Fire Weather Watch 15, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this fire weather watch at Jun 7, 2012, 3:28 PM MDT for 12 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 9, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2012, 3:28 PM MDT (21:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 9, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2012, 2:17 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 1398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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 7, 3:23 PM MDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:23 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 11:37 AM MDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1137 AM MDT THU JUN 7 2012 COZ058>089-093>099-081745- 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- 1137 AM MDT THU JUN 7 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP BY EARLY AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN COLORADO WITH ONE OR TWO SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE BY LATE AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE MAIN AREAS OF CONCERN ARE THE SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS...EAST INTO THE SOUTHERN I-25 CORRIDOR...AS WELL AS EL PASO COUNTY. WHERE STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS DEVELOP...HAIL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IS POSSIBLE ALONG WITH OUTFLOW WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO DISSIPATE THROUGH THROUGH MIDNIGHT. IN ADDITION...FLASH FLOODING WILL BE OF CONCERN WITH THUNDERSTORMS GIVEN THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT OF THE AIR OVER SOUTHERN COLORADO. OF PARTICULAR CONCERN IS THE COLORADO SPRINGS METRO AREA WHERE THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED. IT WILL NOT TAKE MUCH RAINFALL TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING AND THIS AREA WILL BE MONITORED CLOSELY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY OVER THE WEEKEND...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS...AS SOUTHWEST WINDS INCREASE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY FALLS TO VERY LOW LEVELS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO PORTIONS OF THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND TO THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL BE STRONG...PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE EASTERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 88/06
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 6:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 54 min |
| Jun 6, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 7:30 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Jun 6, 8:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 53 min |
| Jun 6, 9:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 9:40 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 100 min |
| Jun 7, 3:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | El Paso | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero, Pueblo | 54 min |
| Jun 7, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 30 min |
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.