Alert archive / Colorado / Winter Storm Watches in 2015
Winter Storm Watch 12, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter storm watch at Mar 17, 2015, 2:54 PM MDT for 11 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Mar 19, 2015, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2015, 2:54 PM MDT (20:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 19, 2015, 12:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2015, 4:16 AM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Chaffee County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Saguache County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Mar 17, 2:42 PM MDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 2:42 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 17, 10:44 AM MDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1044 AM MDT TUE MAR 17 2015 COZ058>089-093>099-181645- 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- 1044 AM MDT TUE MAR 17 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SHOWERS WILL SPREAD INTO THE WESTERN MOUNTAIN AREAS ON WEDNESDAY...AND ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. INITIALLY SNOW LEVELS WILL START OUT AROUND 10000 FEET WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...BUT WILL DROP TO AROUND 7000 FEET OR A LITTLE LOWER BY THURSDAY MORNING. MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...THOUGH DETAILS CONCERNING WHERE THE HEAVIER AMOUNTS WILL FALL IS STILL UNCERTAIN. RAIN MAY SWITCH OVER TO SNOW ACROSS THE VALLEYS AND PORTIONS OF THE I-25 CORRIDOR BY EARLY THURSDAY MORNING...HOWEVER...THE LACK OF PERSISTENT COLD TEMPERATURES WITH THIS SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO LIMIT ACCUMULATIONS ACROSS THE LOWER ELEVATIONS. MEANWHILE...THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS WILL SEE A GOOD CHANCE OF RAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. RESIDUAL MOISTURE WILL KEEP ISOLATED SHOWERS ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN AREAS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. THE NEXT SYSTEM MAY BRING A BRIEF SHOT OF LOWER ELEVATION RAIN AND HIGHER ELEVATION SNOW TO THE SOUTHEAST MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.