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Fire Weather Watch 7, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 5, 20159 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this fire weather watch at Apr 5, 2015, 2:53 PM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 7, 2015, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 5, 2015, 2:53 PM MDT (20:53 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 7, 2015, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 6, 2015, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Alamosa County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 309 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2015-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2015-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 142 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
1917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 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 5, 2:53 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPUBAlamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla and 15 more30 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.