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Fire Weather Watch 10, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this fire weather watch at Apr 24, 2016, 4:07 AM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 25, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2016, 4:07 AM MDT (10:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 25, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2016, 2:47 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Apr 23, 10:34 PM MDT, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 10:34 PM MDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 11:02 AM MDT, 17 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1102 AM MDT SAT APR 23 2016 COZ058>089-093>099-241715- 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 9000FT- 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 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500FT- WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000FT- WET MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500FT/PIKE'S 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 VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FEET- 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- 1102 AM MDT SAT APR 23 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS MORNING AND LAST INTO EARLY EVENING OVER CROWLEY...BENT...OTERO... LAS ANIMAS AND PUEBLO COUNTIES...AS GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES DEVELOP OVER THESE LOCATIONS. A WEATHER DISTURBANCE ROTATING INTO COLORADO LATER TODAY WILL BE CAPABLE OF GENERATING ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. IN ADDITION...SOME LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE OVER THE HIGH MOUNTAIN PEAKS TONIGHT. ALSO...ONE OR TWO STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL AROUND ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER FAR EASTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...ESPECIALLY FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER AND NEAR THE MOUNTAINS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND MAY SPREAD TO PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS MONDAY EVENING. TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THERE MAY BE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE I-25 CORRIDOR AND WESTWARD. THE NEXT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE ON FRIDAY...IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED STORMS BEING POSSIBLE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. THE MAIN STORM THREATS WILL BE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH...HOWEVER SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL BE CHANCES FOR SNOW OVER THE HIGHER MOUNTAIN AREAS...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...AND THERE MAY BE SOME LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY OVER FAR EASTERN PORTIONS OF COLORADO. HODANISH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 8:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 8:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 55 min |
| Apr 24, 2:47 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo | 29 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.