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Winter Weather Advisory 34, NWS Pueblo, CO

December 21, 201611 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter weather advisory at Dec 21, 2016, 8:56 PM MST for 11 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Dec 22, 2016, 6:00 AM MST. It was in force for 26 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 21, 2016, 8:56 PM MST (03:56 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 22, 2016, 6:00 AM MST
Expired
Dec 23, 2016, 8:00 AM MST
In force
26 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Alamosa County, CO, Chaffee County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Lake County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 329 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2016-12-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2016-12-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.