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Special Weather Statement, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 26, 2015Teller County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this special weather statement at Jun 26, 2015, 3:36 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 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: Jun 26, 2015, 3:36 PM MDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2015, 4:15 PM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

County Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 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.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 26, 2:55 PM MDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:55 PM MDT, 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 10:46 AM MDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:36 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 6:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Douglas	19 min
Jun 25, 6:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Elbert	50 min
Jun 25, 6:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOU	Douglas, Elbert	3 hr
Jun 25, 6:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Arapahoe, Denver, Jefferson	41 min
Jun 25, 6:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Jefferson	111 min
Jun 25, 7:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Elbert, Lincoln	41 min
Jun 25, 7:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BOU	Logan	38 min
Jun 25, 7:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Douglas	34 min
Jun 25, 7:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BOU	Logan, Phillips	63 min
Jun 25, 8:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	37 min
Jun 25, 8:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Weld	52 min
Jun 25, 9:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Larimer, Weld	36 min
Jun 25, 9:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Morgan, Weld	33 min
Jun 25, 10:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOU	Morgan, Weld	3 hr
Jun 25, 10:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOU	Larimer	96 min
Jun 25, 10:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Larimer, Weld	32 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.