Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Watches in 2023
High Wind Watch 12, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this high wind watch at Oct 11, 2023, 3:23 AM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It took effect at Oct 12, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 11, 2023, 3:23 AM MDT (09:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 12, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2023, 3:49 AM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Oct 10, 11:08 PM MDT, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 11:08 PM MDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 10, 4:57 AM MDT, 22 hours 26 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Pueblo CO 457 AM MDT Tue Oct 10 2023 COZ058>089-093>099-111100- 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- 457 AM MDT Tue Oct 10 2023 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...east central...south central and southeast Colorado. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight A few thunderstorms will be possible, mainly over the Continental Divide. Some of the storms may produce gusty outflow winds greater than 40 mph, as well as cloud to ground lightning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday Warm and windy conditions will spread across most of southern Colorado on Wednesday with the potential for west winds gusting up to 35 to 45 mph across the plains and 50 to 65 mph across the mountains. With low afternoon humidity levels, critical fire weather conditions will be possible across southern and eastern portions of the southeast plains Wednesday afternoon. Outdoor burning is strongly discouraged. Rain and snow showers will spread into the Continental Divide Wednesday afternoon with moderate to briefly heavy snow at times possible across the Sawatch and Mosquito ranges Wednesday night through Thursday. Steady light snow will continue Thursday night before gradually diminishing Friday morning. Higher mountain passes could see slick and snowpacked roads with the potential for 4 to 8 inches of accumulation, especially north of Cottonwood Pass. The remainder of the mountains will see rain and snow showers with snow levels dropping to around 7000 feet Thursday morning. Accumulations will remain light across the remainder of the mountains with spotty accumulations of an inch or two across the higher peaks south of highway 50. There could be a brief rain and snow mix as far down as the Palmer Divide Thursday morning but little to no accumulation is expected. Across the southeast plains there may be a brief round of rain showers Thursday, with north winds gusting up to 50 mph. A hard freeze will be possible across the San Luis Valley Thursday night with freezing temperatures possible across northern portions of the southeast plains early Friday morning. Widespread freezing temperatures will be likely Friday night across all of the lower elevations. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters will not be needed today or tonight. STEWARD/31
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 3:25 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PUB | Baca, Bent, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo | 12 hr |
| Oct 11, 3:27 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PUB | Chaffee, Lake, Saguache | 51 hr |
| Oct 11, 2:57 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas and 3 more | 28 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.