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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 4, 2015Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 4, 2015, 9:59 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 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 4, 2015, 9:59 PM MDT (03:59 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2015, 10:30 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 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: 76 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 4, 7:15 PM MDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 7:15 PM MDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 4, 7:52 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 4, 5:54 PM MDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
554 PM MDT MON MAY 4 2015

COZ096-050030-
EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY CO-
554 PM MDT MON MAY 4 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTY UNTIL
630 PM MDT...

AT 553 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED NEAR SHERIDAN LAKE...OR 22 MILES WEST
OF HORACE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHERIDAN LAKE AND TOWNER.

LAT...LON 3836 10229 3861 10242 3862 10208 3840 10206
TIME...MOT...LOC 2353Z 167DEG 15KT 3845 10220

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Local storm report, May 4, 6:17 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
617 PM MDT MON MAY 04 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0600 PM     RAIN             2 SSE BLACK FOREST      38.99N 104.69W
05/04/2015                   EL PASO            CO   COCORAHS

            0.63 INCHES IN PAST 10 MINUTES. 1/4 INCH OF PEA SIZED
            HAIL ON GROUND.

&&

MW

Special weather statement, May 4, 6:23 PM MDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
623 PM MDT MON MAY 4 2015

COZ084-050100-
NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT
CO-
623 PM MDT MON MAY 4 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL
700 PM MDT...

AT 622 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RAMAH...OR 30 MILES WEST OF LIMON...MOVING
EAST AT 10 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CALHAN AND RAMAH.

LAT...LON 3899 10406 3900 10429 3913 10431 3913 10405
TIME...MOT...LOC 0022Z 262DEG 9KT 3910 10422

HODANISH

Local storm report, May 4, 8:13 PM MDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 4, 8:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 4, 9:59 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 6:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	2 hr
May 4, 6:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Elbert	37 min
May 4, 7:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	El Paso, Fremont, Teller	21 hr
May 4, 7:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	2 hr
May 4, 9:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
May 4, 10:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	2 hr
May 5, 8:33 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	87 min
May 5, 10:29 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	91 min
May 5, 11:56 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	94 min
May 5, 1:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	94 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.