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Extreme Cold Watch 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

February 16, 20254 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this extreme cold watch at Feb 16, 2025, 2:00 PM MST for 4 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Feb 18, 2025, 5:00 PM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 16, 2025, 2:00 PM MST (21:00 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 18, 2025, 5:00 PM MST
Expired: Feb 17, 2025, 1:15 PM MST
In force
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this extreme cold 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 extreme cold watch went out at Feb 16, 10:22 AM MST, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 10:22 AM MST, 3 hours 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 16, 4:45 AM MST, 9 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 16, 8:14 AM MST, 5 hours 46 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 1:41 AM MST	Dense Fog Advisory	PUB	El Paso	5 hr
Feb 16, 1:51 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	PUB	Chaffee, Lake, Saguache	45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.