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Frost Advisory 7, NWS Pueblo, CO

October 16, 2025El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this frost advisory at Oct 16, 2025, 2:03 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It took effect at Oct 17, 2025, 3:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 16, 2025, 2:03 PM MDT (20:03 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 17, 2025, 3:00 AM MDT
Expired
Oct 17, 2025, 9:00 AM MDT
In force
6 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 20:06 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 421 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2025-10-16Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2025-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 15, 6:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCuster27 min
Oct 15, 6:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBConejos33 min
Oct 15, 6:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCuster, Fremont42 min
Oct 15, 7:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCuster, Fremont, Teller54 min
Oct 15, 8:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBAlamosa, Conejos23 min
Oct 15, 9:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCuster42 min
Oct 15, 10:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso49 min
Oct 15, 11:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCuster31 min
Oct 15, 11:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBLas Animas29 min

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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.