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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

October 12, 20235 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this freeze warning at Oct 12, 2023, 5:46 PM MDT for 5 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Oct 13, 2023, 1:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 12, 2023, 5:46 PM MDT (23:46 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 13, 2023, 1:00 AM MDT
Expired: Oct 13, 2023, 9:00 AM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

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

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 12, 2:43 PM MDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 2:43 PM MDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 12, 5:55 AM MDT, 11 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 12, 12:37 PM MDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 11, 9:52 PM MDT	High Wind Warning	PUB	Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas	14 hr
Oct 12, 3:49 AM MDT	High Wind Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa	32 hr
Oct 12, 11:23 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	52 min
Oct 12, 2:58 PM MDT	Freeze Watch	PUB	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 7 more	13 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Colorado, 2023 Every freeze warning in 2023

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.