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High Wind Watch 15, NWS Pueblo, CO

December 20, 20228 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this high wind watch at Dec 20, 2022, 4:09 AM MST for 8 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Dec 21, 2022, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 20, 2022, 4:09 AM MST (11:09 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 21, 2022, 11:00 PM MST
Expired: Dec 21, 2022, 4:06 PM MST
In force
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Alamosa County, CO, Chaffee County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Custer County, CO, Fremont County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Saguache County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:12 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 high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Dec 19, 10:11 PM MST, 5 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 10:11 PM MST, 5 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 20, 4:05 AM MST, 4 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
405 AM MST Tue Dec 20 2022

COZ058>089-093>099-211115-
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-
405 AM MST Tue Dec 20 2022

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...Wednesday through Monday

An Arctic airmass remains on track to move over Colorado beginning
Wednesday evening, bringing significantly colder air to the region,
especially the plains and I-25 corridor, through Friday. Daytime
high temperatures will struggle to warm above zero on Thursday, and
lows will fall into the negative teens Friday morning. Wind
chills will be dangerously cold, with values as low as 40 below
zero possible Wednesday night and early Thursday. This airmass
will also bring light snow to the region Wednesday night and
Thursday morning, though most accumulations will be an inch or
less. Now is the time to be thinking about preparations on how to
protect infrastructure and yourself from this high impact cold air
outbreak.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Weather spotters will not be needed today or tonight.

RISER/10

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 20, 12:55 PM MST	Red Flag Warning	PUB	El Paso, Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	28 hr
Dec 20, 2:51 PM MST	Wind Chill Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano and 6 more	67 hr
Dec 20, 2:51 PM MST	Wind Chill Advisory	PUB	Chaffee, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, Lake, Teller	56 hr
Dec 20, 2:51 PM MST	Winter Storm Warning	PUB	Chaffee, Lake, Saguache	44 hr
Dec 20, 2:51 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	PUB	Chaffee, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Lake, Mineral and 2 more	44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.