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Winter Weather Advisory 22, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 26, 20169 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter weather advisory at May 26, 2016, 4:20 AM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado. It took effect at May 26, 2016, 3:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2016, 4:20 AM MDT (10:20 UTC)
In effect from: May 26, 2016, 3:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 27, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT
In force: 21 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Alamosa County, CO, Chaffee County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Lake County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Saguache County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:23 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 280 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: 738 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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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 May 26, 4:18 AM MDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 4:18 AM MDT, 2 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
May 25, 8:56 PM MDT	Winter Storm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	39 hr
May 26, 11:34 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	56 min
May 26, 12:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	61 min
May 26, 1:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	24 min
May 26, 1:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	37 min
May 26, 1:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	48 min
May 26, 1:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	47 min
May 26, 1:51 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	114 min
May 26, 2:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	26 min
May 26, 2:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	53 min
May 26, 2:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	52 min
May 26, 2:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	10 min
May 26, 2:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	32 min
May 26, 2:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	58 min
May 26, 3:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	45 min
May 26, 4:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	57 min
May 26, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	31 min
May 26, 4:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	59 min
May 26, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	43 min
May 26, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	56 min

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.