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Snow Squall Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO

December 12, 20224 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this snow squall warning at Dec 12, 2022, 5:09 PM MST for 4 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 12, 2022, 5:09 PM MST (00:09 UTC)
Expired
Dec 12, 2022, 6:15 PM MST
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Alamosa County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Saguache County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 283 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2022-12-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2022-12-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 12, 6:04 PM MSTSnow Squall WarningPUBAlamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache56 min

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.