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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 4, 2014Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2014, 1:13 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 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: Aug 4, 2014, 1:13 PM MDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2014, 1:45 PM MDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

820 
WWUS85 KPUB 041913
SPSPUB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
113 PM MDT MON AUG 4 2014
 
COZ081-084-085-041945-
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-
TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500FT/PIKE'S PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND
11000 FT CO-
113 PM MDT MON AUG 4 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN TELLER AND WEST
CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM MDT...

AT 111 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CRYSTOLA...OR 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
COLORADO SPRINGS...DRIFTING SLOWLY EAST AT 5 MPH.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO .20 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE ON THE WALDO 
CANYONG BURN SCAR WITH THIS STORM...HOWEVER IF THIS STORM 
INTENSIFIES FURTHER THEN HEAVIER AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WESTERN COLORADO SPRINGS...WOODLAND PARK...GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS...
CHIPITA PARK...CASCADE AND CRYSTOLA.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3886 10496 3900 10511 3905 10494 3891 10484
TIME...MOT...LOC 1911Z 243DEG 9KT 3897 10500 

$$
TLM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 6:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	50 min
Aug 3, 6:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	62 min
Aug 4, 1:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	23 min
Aug 4, 2:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	33 min
Aug 4, 3:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo, Teller	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Las Animas	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:35 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Las Animas	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Fremont	2 hr
Aug 4, 3:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Mineral	36 min
Aug 4, 4:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	3 hr
Aug 4, 5:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Pueblo	119 min
Aug 4, 5:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Pueblo	119 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.