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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 14, 2014Huerfano County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2014, 1:08 AM MDT for Huerfano County, Colorado. It was in force for 22 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: Jul 14, 2014, 1:08 AM MDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2014, 1:30 AM MDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Huerfano County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:08 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 304 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

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

340 
WWUS85 KPUB 140708
SPSPUB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
108 AM MDT MON JUL 14 2014
 
COZ074-075-087-088-140730-
SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT CO-
SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT CO-
TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT CO-
WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT CO-
108 AM MDT MON JUL 14 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTH
CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTIES UNTIL 130 AM MDT...

AT 105 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPANISH PEAKS...OR 27 MILES
NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1/2 INCH TO 3/4 OF AND INCH IN 30 MINUTES OR 
LESS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA...INCLUDING PORTIONS THE EAST 
PEAK BURN SCAR. HOWEVER IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES FURTHER THEN 
HEAVIER AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE 
WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CUCHARA PASS AND SPANISH PEAKS. 

LAT...LON 3756 10492 3750 10471 3718 10480 3727 10511
TIME...MOT...LOC 0705Z 020DEG 18KT 3746 10485 

$$

MW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 7:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	27 min
Jul 13, 7:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	36 min
Jul 13, 7:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	29 min
Jul 13, 9:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	30 min
Jul 13, 10:43 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Bent	17 hr
Jul 14, 12:25 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	35 min
Jul 14, 1:00 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Custer, Huerfano, Pueblo	2 hr
Jul 14, 1:08 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	112 min
Jul 14, 10:15 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	30 min
Jul 14, 11:36 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	39 min
Jul 14, 12:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	38 min
Jul 14, 12:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	35 min
Jul 14, 12:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	47 min
Jul 14, 12:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	31 min
Jul 14, 1:04 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	116 min
Jul 14, 1:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	53 min
Jul 14, 1:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Fremont	117 min
Jul 14, 1:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	24 min
Jul 14, 1:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers	44 min
Jul 14, 1:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	34 min
Jul 14, 1:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso, Teller	119 min
Jul 14, 1:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	39 min
Jul 14, 2:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	2 hr
Jul 14, 2:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 14, 2:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 14, 2:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Costilla, Las Animas	3 hr
Jul 14, 2:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	46 min
Jul 14, 2:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	30 min
Jul 14, 2:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	37 min
Jul 14, 3:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	2 hr
Jul 14, 3:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	28 min
Jul 14, 3:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	39 min
Jul 14, 3:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	39 min
Jul 14, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	47 min
Jul 14, 3:19 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	2 hr
Jul 14, 3:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 14, 4:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	44 min
Jul 14, 4:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 14, 4:20 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 14, 4:32 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	4 hr
Jul 14, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	39 min
Jul 14, 4:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Las Animas	3 hr
Jul 14, 4:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	45 min
Jul 14, 4:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	42 min
Jul 14, 5:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more	5 hr
Jul 14, 5:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	26 min
Jul 14, 5:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	33 min
Jul 14, 5:15 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	90 min
Jul 14, 5:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	30 min
Jul 14, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Chaffee, Fremont	50 min
Jul 14, 5:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso, Teller	2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.