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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 7, 2024El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this freeze warning at May 7, 2024, 4:18 AM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It took effect at May 8, 2024, 12:00 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
May 7, 2024, 4:18 AM MDT (10:18 UTC)
In effect from
May 8, 2024, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 8, 2024, 8:00 AM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:21 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 345 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 00:00Z on 2024-05-07Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2024-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 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
2631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 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 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 May 7, 3:58 AM MDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 3:58 AM MDT, 20 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 11:42 AM MDT, 16 hours 36 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
1142 AM MDT Mon May 6 2024

COZ058>089-093>099-071745-
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-
1142 AM MDT Mon May 6 2024

This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...east
central...south central and southeast Colorado.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight

Critical fire weather conditions will be possible over parts of
the region, mainly south of Highway 50. Strong gusty winds and
low humidity values will cause favorable conditions for extreme
fire behavior if a fire were to start. Please do not burn today.

Strong winds will occur across the region today, with the
strongest winds of 40 to 70 mph possible. The strongest winds will
occur through early afternoon along the mountains plains
interface and over the southern I-25 corridor region.

Snow will be possible over the central mountains through the
afternoon. Additional accumulations of 1 to 3 inches will be
possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday

Strong winds will continue across the region Tuesday and
Wednesday. Some of these winds will reach up to 60 mph at times.
Critical fire weather conditions will also be possible across a
good part of the region.

Late this week snow will be possible across the mountains with
light to moderate accumulations possible.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Weather conditions that meet reporting criteria for spotters will
be possible over portions of the region.

STEWARD/RODRIGUEZ

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 12:29 AM MDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
1229 AM MDT Tue May 7 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1210 AM     Snow             2 NE Leadville          39.27N 106.27W
05/07/2024  M2.5 Inch        Lake               CO   Trained Spotter

            Total for day; SWE .15.

&&

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 2:36 AM MDTHigh Wind WarningPUBAlamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont and 6 more14 hr
May 7, 3:51 AM MDTRed Flag WarningPUBAlamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Las Animas, Otero, Rio Grande and 1 more39 hr
May 7, 1:33 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryPUBChaffee, Lake, Saguache7 hr
May 7, 5:47 PM MDTFrost AdvisoryPUBEl Paso14 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.