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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 8, 2014, 2:21 PM MDT for El Paso 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2014, 2:21 PM MDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2014, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
543
WWUS85 KPUB 082021
SPSPUB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
221 PM MDT THU MAY 8 2014
COZ084-085-082045-
COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW
7400 FT CO-
NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT
CO-
221 PM MDT THU MAY 8 2014
...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...
AT 220 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RUSH...OR 34 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON...
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RUSH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
&&
LAT...LON 3883 10405 3883 10406 3886 10418 3896 10418
3898 10405
TIME...MOT...LOC 2020Z 272DEG 25KT 3890 10412
$$
PJCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 12:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 53 min |
| May 8, 1:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Elbert | 24 min |
| May 8, 2:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 27 min |
| May 8, 2:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 21 min |
| May 8, 3:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 34 min |
| May 8, 3:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 29 min |
| May 8, 4:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 24 min |
| May 8, 4:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 25 min |
| May 8, 5:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Douglas | 36 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.