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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 1, 2016El Paso County, Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this freeze warning at May 1, 2016, 3:21 PM MDT for El Paso County, Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It took effect at May 1, 2016, 9:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 1, 2016, 3:21 PM MDT (21:21 UTC)
In effect from
May 1, 2016, 9:00 PM MDT
Expired
May 2, 2016, 9:00 AM MDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties El Paso County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 241 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2016-05-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2016-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
713 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

352 
WWUS75 KPUB 012121
NPWPUB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
321 PM MDT SUN MAY 1 2016

COZ084-085-087-088-020800-
/O.NEW.KPUB.FZ.W.0002.160502T0300Z-160502T1500Z/
NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW
7500 FT-
COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE
BELOW 7400 FT-
WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT-
TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT-
INCLUDING...BLACK FOREST...COLORADO SPRINGS...PETERSON AFB...
WALSENBURG...TRINIDAD
321 PM MDT SUN MAY 1 2016

...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM MDT
MONDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A FREEZE
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM MDT
MONDAY. 

* LOCATION...EL PASO...HUERFANO AND WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES.

* TEMPERATURE...MID 20S TO LOWER 30S.

* IMPACT...YOUNG PLANTS COULD BE DAMAGED OR KILLED. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FREEZE WARNING MEANS THAT FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT
OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS MAY DAMAGE OR KILL YOUNG
PLANTS...CROPS AND OTHER TENDER VEGETATION. COVER PLANTS YOU
WISH TO PROTECT OR BRING THEM INDOORS.

&&

$$
2 follow-up statements
693 
WWUS75 KPUB 020526
NPWPUB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1126 PM MDT SUN MAY 1 2016

COZ084-085-087-088-021500-
/O.CON.KPUB.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160502T1500Z/
NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW
7500 FT-
COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE
BELOW 7400 FT-
WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT-
TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT-
INCLUDING...BLACK FOREST...COLORADO SPRINGS...PETERSON AFB...
WALSENBURG...TRINIDAD
1126 PM MDT SUN MAY 1 2016

...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM MDT MONDAY...

* LOCATION...EL PASO...HUERFANO AND WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES.

* TEMPERATURE...MID 20S TO LOWER 30S.

* IMPACT...YOUNG PLANTS COULD BE DAMAGED OR KILLED.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FREEZE WARNING MEANS THAT FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR
HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS MAY DAMAGE OR KILL YOUNG PLANTS...
CROPS AND OTHER TENDER VEGETATION. COVER PLANTS YOU WISH TO
PROTECT OR BRING THEM INDOORS.

&&

$$
289 
WWUS75 KPUB 020920
NPWPUB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
320 AM MDT MON MAY 2 2016

COZ084-085-087-088-021500-
/O.CON.KPUB.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160502T1500Z/
NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW
7500 FT-
COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE
BELOW 7400 FT-
WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT-
TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT-
INCLUDING...BLACK FOREST...COLORADO SPRINGS...PETERSON AFB...
WALSENBURG...TRINIDAD
320 AM MDT MON MAY 2 2016

...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM MDT THIS MORNING...

* LOCATION...EL PASO...HUERFANO AND WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES.

* TEMPERATURE...MID 20S TO LOWER 30S.

* IMPACT...YOUNG PLANTS COULD BE DAMAGED OR KILLED.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FREEZE WARNING MEANS THAT FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR
HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS MAY DAMAGE OR KILL YOUNG PLANTS...
CROPS AND OTHER TENDER VEGETATION. COVER PLANTS YOU WISH TO
PROTECT OR BRING THEM INDOORS.

&&

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 3:50 AM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryPUBAlamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 5 more17 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Colorado, 2016Every freeze warning in 2016

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.