Alert archive / Colorado / Winter Storm Watches in 2016
Winter Storm Watch 15, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter storm watch at Dec 23, 2016, 9:29 AM MST for 6 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Dec 24, 2016, 6:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2016, 9:29 AM MST (16:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 24, 2016, 6:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2016, 4:34 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Chaffee County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Lake County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 338 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
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.