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Snow Squall Warning 24, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this snow squall warning at Dec 8, 2023, 3:46 PM MST for Alamosa County, Costilla County, Huerfano County, Colorado. It was in force for 44 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 8, 2023, 3:46 PM MST (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 8, 2023, 4:30 PM MST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Huerfano County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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
- 2075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow squall 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 snow squall warning went out at Dec 8, 3:34 PM MST, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 8, 3:34 PM MST, 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 8, 4:14 AM MST, 11 hours 32 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Pueblo CO 414 AM MST Fri Dec 8 2023 COZ058>089-093>099-091115- 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- 414 AM MST Fri Dec 8 2023 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...east central...south central and southeast Colorado. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight A potent weather system will affect the region today and tonight. This system will come across the region in two pieces. The first piece of energy will move across this morning and early afternoon and bring snow to the central mountains and Pikes Peak region. Some of the snow may be briefly heavy. and this will impact the latter part of the morning rush hour in the Pikes Peak region. A second, and much more potent, piece of energy will move across the region very late this afternoon and push south across the area tonight. This system will impact all of the I-25 corridor region, bringing period of heavy snow and strong north winds to the area. Intense snow squalls will be possible, especially early this evening in the Pikes Peak region. Several additional inches of snow will be possible in the Pike Peak region this evening into tonight. Steady moderate to possibly heavy snow will affect the southern I-25 corridor region during the early morning hours Saturday. Some of the snow will push out onto the plains, and local areas of one to two inch amounts will be possible .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday Ongoing snowfall and gusty northerly winds could produce hazardous travel conditions across the southern I-25 Corridor and portions of the southeast plains early Saturday morning, before snow winds down through mid morning and gusty northerly winds of 20 to 40 mph diminish into Saturday afternoon. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather conditions that meet reporting criteria for spotters will be likely over portions of the region. 23/23
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 8, 11:17 AM MST, 4 hours 29 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Pueblo Co 1117 AM MST Fri Dec 8 2023 COZ085-086-082000- Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below 7400 Feet-Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet- INCLUDING Colorado Springs, Peterson AFB, and Pueblo 1117 AM MST Fri Dec 8 2023 Light, to at times moderate, snow is ongoing across parts of southern El Paso County and Pueblo County. Visibility may drop to around 1/2 to 1 mile in any areas of heavier snow. Roads are expected to remain wet given current temperatures, but slushy areas are still possible.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 8:53 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | PUB | Chaffee, Fremont | 22 min |
| Dec 8, 9:15 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | PUB | Chaffee, Fremont, Teller | 30 min |
| Dec 8, 9:47 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | PUB | Fremont, Teller | 28 min |
| Dec 8, 11:11 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas | 34 min |
| Dec 8, 2:16 PM MST | Winter Storm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 15 hr |
| Dec 8, 2:50 PM MST | Snow Squall Warning | PUB | Chaffee, Lake | 25 min |
| Dec 8, 3:01 PM MST | Snow Squall Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Rio Grande, Saguache | 29 min |
Nearby
Snow Squall Warnings in Colorado, 2023Every snow squall 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.