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Winter Storm Watch 19, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter storm watch at Dec 23, 2014, 2:59 PM MST for 9 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Dec 25, 2014, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2014, 2:59 PM MST (21:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 25, 2014, 5:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2014, 3:39 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Chaffee County, CO, Conejos County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Lake County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 1834 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Dec 23, 10:58 AM MST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 10:58 AM MST, 4 hours 1 minute before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 23, 6:21 AM MST, 8 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 621 AM MST TUE DEC 23 2014 COZ058>089-093>099-241330- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- LEADVILLE VICINITY/LAKE COUNTY BELOW 11000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- WESTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY BETWEEN 9000 AND 11000 FT- CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY BELOW 9000 FT- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST CHAFFEE COUNTY ABOVE 9000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY WEST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY EAST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- LA GARITA MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY/EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS BELOW 10000 FT- EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FEET- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500 FT- WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET- WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000 FT- WET MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500 FT/PIKES PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT-PIKES PEAK ABOVE 11000 FT- CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT-PUEBLO AND VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- CROWLEY COUNTY-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY-LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY-SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- 621 AM MST TUE DEC 23 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE EASTERN COLORADO PLAINS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...AS A STRONG JET STREAM OVER THE ROCKIES CONTINUES TO TRANSLATE EAST INTO THE HIGH PLAINS STATES. THE STRONG WINDS...COMBINED WITH OCCASIONAL LIGHT SNOW...ESPECIALLY FOR AREAS ALONG THE PALMER DIVIDE IN NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS IN SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW THROUGH THE LATE MORNING. VISIBILITIES OF A 1/4 MILE OR LESS AT TIMES WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING...ESPECIALLY ACROSS WEST TO EAST ORIENTED ROADWAYS SUCH AS HIGHWAYS 24 AND 94 IN NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY. TRAVEL NORTH FROM COLORADO SPRINGS TO DENVER WILL ALSO BE HAZARDOUS THROUGH THE MORNING. FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST...LOCALIZED AREAS OF BLOWING DUST MAY ALSO CREATE TRAVEL IMPACTS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. DRIVERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND SLOW DOWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING AREAS OF REDUCED VISIBILITIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE TOWARD COLORADO LATE THURSDAY...THEN ACROSS THE STATE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. SNOW WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE THURSDAY AFTERNOON...AND BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES THURSDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY. OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE MOUNTAINS AND ACROSS THE PLAINS...LIGHT SNOW WILL DEVELOP THURSDAY NIGHT AND PERSIST INTO FRIDAY MORNING. THE BEST CHANCE FOR ACCUMULATING SNOW OVER EASTERN COLORADO WILL OCCUR OVER THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTO AND WET MOUNTAINS...AS WELL AS THE PALMER DIVIDE AND RATON MESA. STILL ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM WILL IMPACT THE AREA EARLY NEXT WEEK...BRINGING THE THREAT OF LIGHT SNOW TO MUCH OF THE AREA MONDAY INTO EARLY TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST COLORADO PLAINS TODAY. 23/10
In the hours before
Local storm report, Dec 23, 10:34 AM MST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
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Winter Storm Watches in Colorado, 2014Every winter storm watch 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.