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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this fire weather watch at Feb 25, 2018, 3:05 PM MST for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It took effect at Feb 27, 2018, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 25, 2018, 3:05 PM MST (22:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 27, 2018, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2018, 2:57 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 356 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
- 3579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 3:05 PM MST | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 6 more | 27 hr |
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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.