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Freeze Watch 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

October 18, 201611 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this freeze watch at Oct 18, 2016, 2:54 PM MDT for 11 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Oct 20, 2016, 2:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 18, 2016, 2:54 PM MDT (20:54 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 20, 2016, 2:00 AM MDT
Expired: Oct 19, 2016, 3:28 PM MDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze watch went out at Oct 18, 2:50 PM MDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 2:50 PM MDT, 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 18, 4:22 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero	15 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in Colorado, 2016 Every freeze watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.