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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 8, 2015Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 8, 2015, 6:49 AM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 26 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 8, 2015, 6:49 AM MDT (12:49 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2015, 7:15 AM MDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 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: 602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 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 Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 8, 4:10 AM MDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 4:10 AM MDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 7, 9:35 PM MDT, 9 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 12:55 AM MDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 1:05 AM MDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 1:55 AM MDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 6:16 AM MDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 6:49 AM 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 7, 6:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	56 min
May 7, 6:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	62 min
May 7, 6:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	62 min
May 7, 7:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	65 min
May 7, 7:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	24 min
May 7, 7:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	44 min
May 7, 8:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	18 min
May 7, 9:08 PM MDT	Winter Storm Watch	PUB	Chaffee, El Paso, Lake, Saguache, Teller	32 hr
May 7, 9:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	65 min
May 7, 9:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero	29 min
May 7, 10:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	66 min
May 8, 12:27 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	33 min
May 8, 12:32 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	28 min
May 8, 12:55 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	35 min
May 8, 1:05 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	25 min
May 8, 6:16 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	29 min
May 8, 7:37 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
May 8, 8:55 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	35 min
May 8, 9:29 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	31 min
May 8, 10:12 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	33 min
May 8, 12:50 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	18 hr
May 8, 12:50 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso, Otero	6 days
May 8, 1:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	35 min
May 8, 1:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	36 min
May 8, 1:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	32 min
May 8, 2:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	23 min
May 8, 2:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	27 min
May 8, 2:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	34 min
May 8, 2:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	28 min
May 8, 2:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Pueblo	32 min
May 8, 2:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	24 min
May 8, 2:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	31 min
May 8, 3:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	26 min
May 8, 3:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	33 min
May 8, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	32 min
May 8, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	35 min
May 8, 3:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	33 min
May 8, 3:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	32 min
May 8, 4:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	49 min
May 8, 4:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	34 min
May 8, 4:12 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	33 min
May 8, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	61 min
May 8, 4:39 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Otero, Pueblo	36 min
May 8, 5:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	25 min
May 8, 5:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	46 min
May 8, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	47 min
May 8, 5:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	27 min
May 8, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	67 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.