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Fire Weather Watch 39, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 22, 201813 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this fire weather watch at Jun 22, 2018, 4:11 AM MDT for 13 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 23, 2018, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2018, 4:11 AM MDT (10:11 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 23, 2018, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jun 22, 2018, 2:54 PM MDT
In force
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, Las Animas County, CO, Mineral County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 303 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2018-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 435 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2018-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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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 Jun 21, 11:49 PM MDT, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 11:49 PM MDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 11:48 PM MDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 12:10 AM MDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:42 AM MDT, 29 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 6:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso31 min
Jun 21, 7:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCrowley25 min
Jun 21, 8:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCrowley27 min
Jun 21, 11:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUB27 min
Jun 22, 12:10 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUB35 min
Jun 22, 3:42 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBProwers48 min
Jun 22, 11:21 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller24 min
Jun 22, 11:48 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller27 min
Jun 22, 12:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBFremont28 min
Jun 22, 12:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso26 min
Jun 22, 12:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBPueblo48 min
Jun 22, 1:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley, El Paso, Pueblo32 min
Jun 22, 2:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBKiowa37 min
Jun 22, 2:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa52 min
Jun 22, 2:54 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPUBAlamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont and 7 more30 hr
Jun 22, 3:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBaca33 min
Jun 22, 3:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca25 min
Jun 22, 3:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers45 min
Jun 22, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Las Animas50 min
Jun 22, 4:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers42 min
Jun 22, 4:08 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers19 min
Jun 22, 4:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers34 min
Jun 22, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca24 min

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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.