Alert archive / Colorado / Freeze Warnings in 2016
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 3:50 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 5 more | 17 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.