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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this high wind watch at Apr 15, 2024, 3:10 AM MDT for Baca County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It took effect at Apr 16, 2024, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2024, 3:10 AM MDT (09:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2024, 9:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2024, 2:22 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Baca County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 4376 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 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 Apr 15, 12:33 AM MDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 12:33 AM MDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 3:45 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PUB | Chaffee, Lake, Saguache | 32 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:49 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo | 11 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:22 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 28 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:44 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | El Paso, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo | 30 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.