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Winter Storm Warning 15, NWS Pueblo, CO

December 2, 2023Chaffee County, Lake County, Saguache County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this winter storm warning at Dec 2, 2023, 2:08 PM MST for Chaffee County, Lake County, Saguache County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 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
Dec 2, 2023, 2:08 PM MST (21:08 UTC)
Expired
Dec 4, 2023, 1:40 AM MST
In force
36 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Chaffee County, CO, Lake County, CO, Saguache County, CO

The radar

The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 199 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2023-12-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2023-12-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 189 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
999 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 2, 11:42 AM MST, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 2, 11:42 AM MST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 2, 4:05 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBEl Paso, Fremont, Teller7 hr
Dec 2, 11:25 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchPUBAlamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 3 more7 hr
Dec 2, 11:25 AM MSTHigh Wind WarningPUBAlamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 5 more27 hr
Dec 2, 2:08 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPUBChaffee, Lake27 hr

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.