Alert archive / Colorado / Winter Storm Watches in 2020
Winter Storm Watch 9, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter storm watch at Apr 14, 2020, 2:39 PM MDT for Chaffee County, Lake County, Saguache County, Colorado. It took effect at Apr 16, 2020, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2020, 2:39 PM MDT (20:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2020, 6:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2020, 1:59 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Chaffee County, CO, Lake County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 1400 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.