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Winter Weather Advisory 49, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 10, 201510 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter weather advisory at May 10, 2015, 10:09 AM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado. It took effect at May 10, 2015, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2015, 10:09 AM MDT (16:09 UTC)
In effect from: May 10, 2015, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 11, 2015, 3:55 AM MDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Alamosa 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), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:07 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 weather advisory went out at May 10, 6:09 AM MDT, 4 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 6:09 AM MDT, 4 hours before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 6:41 AM MDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 10, 7:39 AM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 8:18 AM MDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
818 AM MDT SUN MAY 10 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0818 AM     SNOW             2 ENE MONUMENT          39.11N 104.84W
05/10/2015  M7.0 INCH        EL PASO            CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

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Local storm report, May 10, 8:42 AM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
842 AM MDT SUN MAY 10 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0841 AM     SNOW             5 NNE ROSITA            38.16N 105.28W
05/10/2015  M7.0 INCH        CUSTER             CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

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Local storm report, May 10, 8:58 AM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
858 AM MDT SUN MAY 10 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0857 AM     RAIN             3 ENE COLORADO SPRINGS  38.85N 104.78W
05/10/2015                   EL PASO            CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            0.79 INCHES

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Local storm report, May 10, 8:59 AM MDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
859 AM MDT SUN MAY 10 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0858 AM     RAIN             2 WNW COLORADO SPRINGS  38.85N 104.85W
05/10/2015                   EL PASO            CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            1.49 INCHES

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Local storm report, May 10, 9:17 AM MDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
917 AM MDT SUN MAY 10 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0916 AM     SNOW             1 SSW RYE               37.91N 104.94W
05/10/2015  M1.0 INCH        PUEBLO             CO   NWS EMPLOYEE

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 8:54 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	36 hr
May 10, 1:44 PM MDT	Frost Advisory	PUB	El Paso	19 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.