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Winter Storm Watch 8, NWS Pueblo, CO

October 12, 201811 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter storm watch at Oct 12, 2018, 3:00 PM MDT for 11 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Oct 14, 2018, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 12, 2018, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 14, 2018, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired
Oct 13, 2018, 4:15 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Alamosa County, CO, Chaffee County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Saguache County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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.

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 Oct 12, 11:33 AM MDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 11:33 AM MDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 12, 6:49 AM MDT, 8 hours 11 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
649 AM MDT Fri Oct 12 2018

COZ058>089-093>099-131300-
Western Mosquito Range/East Lake County Above 11000 Feet-
Leadville Vicinity/Lake County Below 11000 Feet-
Eastern Sawatch Mountains Above 11000 Feet-
Western Chaffee County Between 9000 and 11000 Feet-
Central Chaffee County Below 9000 Feet-
Western Mosquito Range/East Chaffee County Above 9000 Feet-
Saguache County West of Continental Divide Below 10000 Feet-
Saguache County East of Continental Divide Below 10000 Feet-
La Garita Mountains Above 10000 Feet-
Upper Rio Grande Valley/Eastern San Juan Mountains Below
10000 Feet-Eastern San Juan Mountains Above 10000 Feet-
Del Norte Vicinity/Northern San Luis Valley Below 8500 Feet-
Alamosa  Vicinity/Central San Luis Valley Below 8500 Feet-
Southern San Luis Valley-
Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 8500 And 11000 Feet-
Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Feet-
Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Feet-
Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Feet-
Northwestern Fremont County Above 8500 Feet-
Western/Central Fremont County Below 8500 Feet-
Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Feet-
Wet Mountains between 6300 and 10000 Feet-
Wet Mountains Above 10000 Feet-
Teller County/Rampart Range Above 7500 Feet/Pikes Peak Between
7500 And 11000 Feet-Pikes Peak Above 11000 Feet-
Canon City Vicinity/Eastern Fremont County-
Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below
7500 Feet-
Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range
Below 7400 Feet-Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet-
Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Feet-
Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Feet-
Crowley County-La Junta Vicinity/Otero County-
Eastern Las Animas County-Western Kiowa County-
Eastern Kiowa County-Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County-
Lamar Vicinity/Prowers County-Springfield Vicinity/Baca County-
649 AM MDT Fri Oct 12 2018

This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...east
central...south central and southeast Colorado.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday

Another storm system will move across the region Saturday night
and Sunday. This system has the potential to bring accumulating
snow to all of the mountains and the greater I-25 corridor region.
Several inches of accumulating snow will be possible, especially
across the southern foothills and southern areas along the Raton
Mesa. Southbound travel on Interstate 25 south of Pueblo early
Sunday morning will likely be difficult.

A hard freeze will be possible across all of the southeast
Colorado plains early Monday morning as temperatures are expected
to fall into the teens to mid 20s.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Weather spotters will not be needed today or tonight.

50/27

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 4:02 AM MDTDense Fog AdvisoryPUBEl Paso3 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Colorado, 2018Every winter storm watch in 2018

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.