Alert archive / Colorado / Frost Advisories in 2012
Frost Advisory 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this frost advisory at Sep 15, 2012, 2:47 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Sep 16, 2012, 2:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 2012, 2:47 PM MDT (20:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 16, 2012, 2:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2012, 7:39 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 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 20:48 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, 8.8 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
- 3261 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
971 WWUS75 KPUB 152047 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 247 PM MDT SAT SEP 15 2012 COZ069>071-160300- /O.NEW.KPUB.FR.Y.0003.120916T0800Z-120916T1400Z/ 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 247 PM MDT SAT SEP 15 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM MDT SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM MDT SUNDAY. * LOCATION...THE SAN LUIS VALLEY * TEMPERATURE...LOWS TONIGHT ARE EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE UPPER 20S AND LOWER 30S...MAINLY IN THE CENTER PORTIONS OF THE VALLEY...INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO...ALAMOSA...MONTE VISTA... MOSCA AND LA JARA. * IMPACT...THE COLD TEMPERATURES COULD DAMAGE SOME VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TEMPERATURES AROUND FREEZING WILL OCCUR FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT CROPS OR VEGETATION. && $$
4 follow-up statements
461 WWUS75 KPUB 160230 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 830 PM MDT SAT SEP 15 2012 COZ069>071-160830- /O.CON.KPUB.FR.Y.0003.120916T0800Z-120916T1400Z/ DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- INCLUDING...CENTER...DEL NORTE...ALAMOSA...MONTE VISTA... MANASSA...LA JARA...ANTONITO...SANFORD...SAN LUIS... FORT GARLAND...BLANCA 830 PM MDT SAT SEP 15 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM MDT SUNDAY... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM MDT SUNDAY. * LOCATION...THE SAN LUIS VALLEY * TEMPERATURE...LOWS TONIGHT ARE EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE UPPER 20S AND LOWER 30S...MAINLY IN THE CENTER PORTIONS OF THE VALLEY...INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO...ALAMOSA...MONTE VISTA... MOSCA AND LA JARA. * IMPACT...THE COLD TEMPERATURES COULD DAMAGE SOME VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TEMPERATURES AROUND FREEZING WILL OCCUR FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT CROPS OR VEGETATION. && $$
488 WWUS75 KPUB 160525 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1125 PM MDT SAT SEP 15 2012 COZ069>071-161130- /O.CON.KPUB.FR.Y.0003.120916T0800Z-120916T1400Z/ 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 1125 PM MDT SAT SEP 15 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM MDT SUNDAY... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM MDT SUNDAY. * LOCATION...THE SAN LUIS VALLEY * TEMPERATURE...LOWS TONIGHT ARE EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE UPPER 20S AND LOWER 30S...MAINLY IN THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE VALLEY...INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO...ALAMOSA...MONTE VISTA... MOSCA AND LA JARA. * IMPACT...THE COLD TEMPERATURES COULD DAMAGE SOME VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TEMPERATURES AROUND FREEZING WILL OCCUR FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT CROPS OR VEGETATION. && $$
890 WWUS75 KPUB 161035 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 435 AM MDT SUN SEP 16 2012 COZ069>071-161400- /O.CON.KPUB.FR.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-120916T1400Z/ DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- INCLUDING...CENTER...DEL NORTE...ALAMOSA...MONTE VISTA... MANASSA...LA JARA...ANTONITO...SANFORD...SAN LUIS... FORT GARLAND...BLANCA 435 AM MDT SUN SEP 16 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM MDT THIS MORNING... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM MDT THIS MORNING. * LOCATION...THE SAN LUIS VALLEY * TEMPERATURE...TEMPERATURES FALLING INTO THE LOWER 30S EARLY THIS MORNING WILL KEEP THE POTENTIAL FOR AREAS OF FROST ACROSS MAINLY CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY...INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO...ALAMOSA...MONTE VISTA...MOSCA AND LA JARA. * IMPACT...THE COLD TEMPERATURES COULD DAMAGE SOME VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TEMPERATURES AROUND FREEZING WILL OCCUR FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT CROPS OR VEGETATION. && $$
357 WWUS75 KPUB 161339 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 739 AM MDT SUN SEP 16 2012 COZ069>071-161445- /O.CAN.KPUB.FR.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-120916T1400Z/ DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- 739 AM MDT SUN SEP 16 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 30S ACROSS CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE SAN LUIS VALLEY WILL CONTINUE TO WARM THROUGH THE REST OF THE MORNING. $$
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.