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Dust Storm Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

March 15, 2026Alamosa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this dust storm warning at Mar 15, 2026, 9:21 AM MDT for Alamosa County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 2026, 9:21 AM MDT (15:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2026, 9:45 AM MDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Alamosa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:21 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 dust 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 dust storm warning went out at Mar 14, 12:58 PM MDT, 20 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 12:58 PM MDT, 20 hours 23 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
Mar 15, 10:04 AM MDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	PUB	Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache	8 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.