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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 6, 2015, 2:23 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 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 6, 2015, 2:23 PM MDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2015, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 6, 11:24 AM MDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 11:24 AM MDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1226 PM MDT WED MAY 6 2015 COZ058>089-093>099-071830- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- LEADVILLE VICINITY/LAKE COUNTY BELOW 11000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- WESTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY BETWEEN 9000 AND 11000 FT- CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY BELOW 9000 FT- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST CHAFFEE COUNTY ABOVE 9000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY WEST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY EAST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- LA GARITA MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY/EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS BELOW 10000 FT- EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FEET- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500 FT- WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET- WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000 FT- WET MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500 FT/PIKES PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT-PIKES PEAK ABOVE 11000 FT- CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT-PUEBLO AND VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- CROWLEY COUNTY-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY-LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY-SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- 1226 PM MDT WED MAY 6 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL RE-DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THUNDERSTORMS MOST NUMEROUS TO THE NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. HOWEVER SOME BRIEF SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ONE OR TWO OF THE STRONGER STORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS. WHILE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HIT OR MISS ACROSS THE PIKES PEAK REGION TODAY...THE GROUND IS SATURATED FROM THE RECENT RAIN...AND FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE ON AREA BURN SCARS SHOULD A STORM IMPACT THOSE REGIONS. MEANWHILE...THE HIGHER MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FEET MAY PICK UP AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW IN SPOTTY AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS BUT WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED STORMS PERSISTING DURING THE NIGHTS. THE MAIN THREATS FROM STORMS EACH DAY WILL BE LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. A COUPLE STORMS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOON COULD BE ON THE STRONG TO SEVERE SIDE...WITH HAIL UP TO ONE INCH AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE ALONG OR EAST OF INTERSTATE 25. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER ON SATURDAY DEPENDING ON THE EVENTUAL TRACK OF AN APPROACHING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...BUT AT THIS TIME IT LOOKS LIKE THE GREATER SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE NORTH AND EAST OF OUR AREA. SNOW LEVELS WILL REMAIN FAIRLY HIGH...ABOVE 10000 FEET...THROUGH SATURDAY. HOWEVER...SOME LOCALLY SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 11000 FEET. THE SUMMIT OF PIKES PEAK COULD SEE AN ADDITIONAL FOOT OF SNOW FALL BY THIS WEEKEND. SUNDAY MORNING...A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTHWARD THROUGH EASTERN COLORADO WILL DROP SNOW LEVELS TO 7000 FEET. SOME ACCUMULATING SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE ABOVE THIS ELEVATION...PARTICULARLY OVER CHAFFEE AND LAKE COUNTIES...TELLER COUNTY...AND POSSIBLY NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY. TRAVELERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF WINTER ROAD CONDITIONS FOR THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO...PARTICULARLY TO THE NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50. 10/10
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 6, 10:19 AM MDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 12:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 34 min |
| May 6, 1:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 29 min |
| May 6, 2:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 32 min |
| May 6, 3:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 28 min |
| May 6, 3:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 23 min |
| May 6, 4:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 26 min |
| May 6, 4:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Pueblo | 2 hr |
| May 6, 4:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley, Kiowa | 88 min |
| May 6, 4:49 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Bent, Crowley, Otero | 116 min |
| May 6, 5:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 90 min |
| May 6, 5:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 35 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.