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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter storm watch at Feb 2, 2020, 2:59 PM MST for 6 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Feb 3, 2020, 4:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2020, 2:59 PM MST (21:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 3, 2020, 4:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2020, 4:18 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 4072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 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 Feb 2, 10:58 AM MST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 2, 10:58 AM MST, 4 hours 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 6:08 PM MST | Winter Storm Watch | PUB | Chaffee, Conejos, Lake, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache | 21 hr |
| Feb 2, 2:59 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more | 52 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.