Alert archive / Colorado / Freeze Warnings in 2012
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this freeze warning at May 28, 2012, 3:09 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado. It took effect at May 29, 2012, 1:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2012, 3:09 PM MDT (21:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 29, 2012, 1:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 3:42 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 2282 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
350 WWUS75 KPUB 282109 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 309 PM MDT MON MAY 28 2012 COZ069>071-290400- /O.UPG.KPUB.FZ.A.0001.120529T0700Z-120529T1300Z/ /O.NEW.KPUB.FZ.W.0002.120529T0700Z-120529T1400Z/ DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- INCLUDING...CENTER...DEL NORTE...ALAMOSA...MONTE VISTA... MANASSA...LA JARA...ANTONITO...SANFORD...SAN LUIS... FORT GARLAND...BLANCA 309 PM MDT MON MAY 28 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM MDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM MDT TUESDAY. THE FREEZE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * LOCATION...THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. * TEMPERATURES...ANOTHER HARD FREEZE IS EXPECTED TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...WITH MINIMUM TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 20S LIKELY IN THE CENTER OF THE VALLEY. * IMPACT...PROLONGED FREEZING TEMPERATURES MAY DAMAGE TENDER VEGETATION. SENSITIVE PLANTS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INDOORS AGAIN TONIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A PROLONGED PERIOD OF SUBFREEZING TEMPERATURES IS EXPECTED. TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT CROPS OR VEGETATION. DRAIN EXPOSED WATER PIPES AND IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. && $$
2 follow-up statements
775 WWUS75 KPUB 290345 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 945 PM MDT MON MAY 28 2012 COZ069>071-291000- /O.CON.KPUB.FZ.W.0002.120529T0700Z-120529T1400Z/ DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- INCLUDING...CENTER...DEL NORTE...ALAMOSA...MONTE VISTA... MANASSA...LA JARA...ANTONITO...SANFORD...SAN LUIS... FORT GARLAND...BLANCA 945 PM MDT MON MAY 28 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM MDT TUESDAY... A FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM MDT TUESDAY. * LOCATION...THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. * TEMPERATURES...ANOTHER HARD FREEZE IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY...WITH LOW TEMPERATURES DROPPING INTO THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S OVERNIGHT. THE COLDEST READINGS ARE EXPECTED OVER CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE VALLEY. * IMPACT...PROLONGED FREEZING TEMPERATURES MAY DAMAGE TENDER VEGETATION. SENSITIVE PLANTS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INDOORS AGAIN TONIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A PROLONGED PERIOD OF SUBFREEZING TEMPERATURES IS EXPECTED. TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT CROPS OR VEGETATION. DRAIN EXPOSED WATER PIPES AND IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. && $$
403 WWUS75 KPUB 290942 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 342 AM MDT TUE MAY 29 2012 COZ069>071-291045- /O.CAN.KPUB.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120529T1400Z/ DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- 342 AM MDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELLED THE FREEZE WARNING. TEMPERATURES HAVE REMAINED IN THE MID TO UPPER 30S ACROSS THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. ISOLATED LOCATIONS MAY BRIEFLY FALL BELOW FREEZING THROUGH DAWN...BUT EXPECT MOST OF THE VALLEY TO REMAIN ABOVE THE FREEZING MARK THROUGH SUNRISE. $$
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.