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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 31, 2014Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 31, 2014, 9:21 PM MDT for Prowers 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 31, 2014, 9:21 PM MDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2014, 9:45 PM MDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 217 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 00:00Z on 2014-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 407 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2014-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1947 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

776 
WWUS85 KPUB 010321
SPSPUB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
921 PM MDT SAT MAY 31 2014
 
COZ098-010345-
LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY CO-
921 PM MDT SAT MAY 31 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY UNTIL 945
PM MDT...

AT 920 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRANADA...OR 14 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF LAMAR...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE 
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL PROWERS
COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3782 10256 3805 10255 3800 10206 3780 10207
TIME...MOT...LOC 0320Z 268DEG 20KT 3793 10242 

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 6:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso30 min
May 31, 6:17 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBKiowa28 min
May 31, 6:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBent38 min
May 31, 6:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBKiowa14 min
May 31, 6:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso27 min
May 31, 6:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBaca26 min
May 31, 7:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBKiowa25 min
May 31, 7:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBKiowa15 min
May 31, 7:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCrowley19 min
May 31, 8:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBent21 min
May 31, 8:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley40 min
May 31, 8:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBProwers25 min
May 31, 9:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBProwers30 min
May 31, 10:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers45 min
May 31, 11:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBProwers29 min
Jun 1, 2:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBProwers45 min
Jun 1, 2:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa57 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.