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Winter Weather Advisory 19, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 28, 201610 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter weather advisory at Apr 28, 2016, 4:15 AM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 28, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2016, 4:15 AM MDT (10:15 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 28, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Apr 29, 2016, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 32 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Conejos County, CO, Custer County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 294 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Apr 27, 11:24 PM MDT, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 11:24 PM MDT, 4 hours 51 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
Apr 28, 4:15 AM MDT	Winter Storm Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 6 more	40 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.