Alert archive / Colorado / Winter Storm Watches in 2015
Winter Storm Watch 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter storm watch at Feb 3, 2015, 4:06 AM MST for Chaffee County, Lake County, Saguache County, Colorado. It took effect at Feb 3, 2015, 9:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 2015, 4:06 AM MST (11:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 3, 2015, 9:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2015, 3:05 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Chaffee County, CO, Lake County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 2540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 3:05 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | PUB | Chaffee, Lake, Saguache | 32 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.