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Blowing Dust Advisory 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

February 20, 2014Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this blowing dust advisory at Feb 20, 2014, 11:12 AM MST for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 20, 2014, 11:12 AM MST (18:12 UTC)
Expired
Feb 20, 2014, 6:00 PM MST
In force
7 hr
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 18:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-02-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-02-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2069 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 20, 2:50 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPUBChaffee, Lake, Saguache17 hr

Nearby

Blowing Dust Advisories in Colorado, 2014Every blowing dust advisory in 2014

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.