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Blowing Dust Advisory 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

February 15, 2014Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this blowing dust advisory at Feb 15, 2014, 12:50 PM MST for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It took effect at Feb 15, 2014, 1:00 PM MST. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 15, 2014, 12:50 PM MST (19:50 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 15, 2014, 1:00 PM MST
Expired: Feb 15, 2014, 2:57 PM MST
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 352 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blowing dust advisory 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 blowing dust advisory went out at Feb 15, 11:08 AM MST, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 11:08 AM MST, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 15, 8:23 AM MST, 4 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 15, 7:45 AM MST, 5 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 15, 7:54 AM MST, 4 hours 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 15, 11:14 AM MST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1114 AM MST SAT FEB 15 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1058 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 5 ESE WETMORE           38.21N 105.00W
02/15/2014  M58 MPH          PUEBLO             CO   MESONET

            MESONET

1007 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 8 WSW FOUNTAIN          38.66N 104.85W
02/15/2014  M60 MPH          EL PASO            CO   OTHER FEDERAL

            FCRC2

0735 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 W AIR FORCE ACADEMY   38.99N 104.92W
02/15/2014  M82 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

            RAMPART AFA SITE

0704 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 4 N COLORADO SPRINGS    38.90N 104.83W
02/15/2014  M69 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

            I-25 FOUNTAIN CREEK

0630 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 4 S AIR FORCE ACADEMY   38.93N 104.85W
02/15/2014  M84 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

            D3529 SITE

0625 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 5 NE AIR FORCE ACADEMY  39.03N 104.80W
02/15/2014  M64 MPH          EL PASO            CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

0624 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 W AIR FORCE ACADEMY   38.99N 104.92W
02/15/2014  M78 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

            RAMPART RANGE SENSOR

0600 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 4 S AIR FORCE ACADEMY   38.93N 104.86W
02/15/2014  M75 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

0600 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 4 S AIR FORCE ACADEMY   38.93N 104.85W
02/15/2014  M75 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

            DW3529 OB

0551 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 ENE FALCON            38.95N 104.57W
02/15/2014  M58 MPH          EL PASO            CO   AWOS

0510 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 W AIR FORCE ACADEMY   38.99N 104.92W
02/15/2014  M76 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

            RAMPART RANGE MESONET SENSOR

0456 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 8 SW SECURITY           38.68N 104.86W
02/15/2014  M67 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

0358 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 11 WSW FOUNTAIN         38.61N 104.89W
02/15/2014  M64 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

            FT CARSON RAWS SITE

0357 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 NNW COLORADO CITY     37.98N 104.87W
02/15/2014  M64 MPH          PUEBLO             CO   MESONET

            D2845 COLORADO CITY OB

0312 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 W AIR FORCE ACADEMY   38.99N 104.92W
02/15/2014  M77 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

            RAMPART RANGE MESONET SENSOR

0250 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 4 S AIR FORCE ACADEMY   38.93N 104.86W
02/15/2014  M65 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

0239 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 2 SSE AIR FORCE ACADEMY 38.96N 104.85W
02/15/2014  M64 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

            AIR FORCE ACADEMY MESONET SENSOR.

0205 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 4 N COLORADO SPRINGS    38.90N 104.83W
02/15/2014  M58 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

0200 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 4 S AIR FORCE ACADEMY   38.93N 104.86W
02/15/2014  M72 MPH          EL PASO            CO   MESONET

0149 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 2 S PETERSON AFB        38.81N 104.70W
02/15/2014  M58 MPH          EL PASO            CO   ASOS

0206 PM     SNOW             2 NE LEADVILLE          39.27N 106.27W
02/14/2014  M3.6 INCH        LAKE               CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

0800 AM     SNOW             CLIMAX                  39.37N 106.18W
02/14/2014  M7.0 INCH        LAKE               CO   CO-OP OBSERVER

0725 AM     SNOW             1 NNW MONARCH PASS      38.51N 106.33W
02/14/2014  M7.0 INCH        CHAFFEE            CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            STORM TOTAL REPORTED BY MONARCH SKI AREA OVER THE PAST
            48 HOURS. 6 INCHES FELL IN THE PAST 24 HOURS.

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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 15, 2:03 AM MST	High Wind Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 5 more	10 hr
Feb 15, 7:50 AM MST	Dust Storm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	5 hr

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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.