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Winter Storm Watch 10, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 24, 20146 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter storm watch at Apr 24, 2014, 3:14 PM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 26, 2014, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 24, 2014, 3:14 PM MDT (21:14 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 26, 2014, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 26, 2014, 3:54 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Chaffee County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Lake County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-04-24Temperature 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2014-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
195 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
Apr 23, 6:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso23 min
Apr 24, 3:01 PM MDTFire Weather WatchPUBAlamosa, Baca, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley and 10 more24 hr

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.