Alert archive / Colorado / Winter Storm Watches in 2017
Winter Storm Watch 16, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter storm watch at Apr 27, 2017, 4:33 AM MDT for 15 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Apr 28, 2017, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2017, 4:33 AM MDT (10:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 28, 2017, 6:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2017, 4:34 AM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Chaffee County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Lake 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), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 346 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
- 3635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Apr 27, 4:01 AM MDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 4:01 AM MDT, 32 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 12:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 1:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 25 min |
| Apr 27, 2:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 39 min |
| Apr 27, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 43 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.