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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

February 26, 201715 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this fire weather watch at Feb 26, 2017, 3:35 PM MST for 15 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Feb 27, 2017, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for 305 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 26, 2017, 3:35 PM MST (22:35 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 27, 2017, 12:00 PM MST
Expired
Dec 29, 2017, 2:07 PM MST
In force
305 days
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Costilla 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, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Saguache County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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 fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Feb 26, 12:00 PM MST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 12:00 PM MST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 26, 4:19 AM MSTWinter Storm WatchPUBChaffee, Conejos, Lake, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache11 hr
Feb 26, 3:41 PM MSTWinter Storm WarningPUBChaffee, Conejos, Lake, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.