Alert archive / Colorado / Freeze Warnings in 2016
Freeze Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this freeze warning at Sep 23, 2016, 3:03 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Sep 24, 2016, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Sep 23, 2016, 3:03 PM MDT (21:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 24, 2016, 12:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2016, 9:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 88 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
591 WWUS75 KPUB 232103 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 303 PM MDT FRI SEP 23 2016 COZ069>071-240515- /O.UPG.KPUB.FZ.A.0001.160924T0600Z-160924T1500Z/ /O.NEW.KPUB.FZ.W.0003.160924T0600Z-160924T1500Z/ DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- INCLUDING...CENTER...DEL NORTE...ALAMOSA...MONTE VISTA... MANASSA...LA JARA...ANTONITO...SANFORD...SAN LUIS... FORT GARLAND...BLANCA 303 PM MDT FRI SEP 23 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM MDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM MDT SATURDAY. THE FREEZE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * LOCATION...THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. * TEMPERATURES...TEMPERATURES WILL DROP INTO THE MID TO UPPER 20S FOR SEVERAL HOURS LATE TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR A WIDESPREAD KILLING FREEZE. * IMPACT...TENDER VEGETATION COULD BE SEVERELY DAMAGED OR KILLED BRINGING AN END TO THE GROWING SEASON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$
3 follow-up statements
911 WWUS75 KPUB 240451 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1051 PM MDT FRI SEP 23 2016 COZ069>071-241300- /O.CON.KPUB.FZ.W.0003.160924T0600Z-160924T1500Z/ DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- INCLUDING...CENTER...DEL NORTE...ALAMOSA...MONTE VISTA... MANASSA...LA JARA...ANTONITO...SANFORD...SAN LUIS... FORT GARLAND...BLANCA 1051 PM MDT FRI SEP 23 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM MDT SATURDAY... * LOCATION...THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. * TEMPERATURES...TEMPERATURES WILL DROP INTO THE MID TO UPPER 20S FOR SEVERAL HOURS LATE TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR A WIDESPREAD KILLING FREEZE. * IMPACT...TENDER VEGETATION COULD BE SEVERELY DAMAGED OR KILLED BRINGING AN END TO THE GROWING SEASON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$
603 WWUS75 KPUB 240955 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 355 AM MDT SAT SEP 24 2016 COZ069>071-241500- /O.CON.KPUB.FZ.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160924T1500Z/ DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- INCLUDING...CENTER...DEL NORTE...ALAMOSA...MONTE VISTA... MANASSA...LA JARA...ANTONITO...SANFORD...SAN LUIS... FORT GARLAND...BLANCA 355 AM MDT SAT SEP 24 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM MDT THIS MORNING... * LOCATION...THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. * TEMPERATURES...TEMPERATURES HAVE DROPPED INTO THE MID TO UPPER 20S EARLY THIS MORNING WITH A LIKELY WIDESPREAD KILLING FREEZE ONGOING. * IMPACT...TENDER VEGETATION COULD BE SEVERELY DAMAGED OR KILLED BRINGING AN END TO THE GROWING SEASON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$
968 WWUS75 KPUB 241508 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 908 AM MDT SAT SEP 24 2016 COZ069>071-241615- /O.EXP.KPUB.FZ.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160924T1500Z/ DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- INCLUDING...CENTER...DEL NORTE...ALAMOSA...MONTE VISTA... MANASSA...LA JARA...ANTONITO...SANFORD...SAN LUIS... FORT GARLAND...BLANCA 908 AM MDT SAT SEP 24 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING HAS EXPIRED... TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB ABOVE FREEZING OVER THE NEXT HOUR. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 1:42 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Fremont, Saguache | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 6:28 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Fremont | 2 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.