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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 18, 2015Saguache County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 18, 2015, 6:23 PM MDT for Saguache County, Colorado. It was in force for 52 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 18, 2015, 6:23 PM MDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2015, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Saguache County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 341 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3123 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 253 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 18, 3:57 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 3:57 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 1:09 PM MDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 18, 6:23 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 18, 10:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	118 min
May 19, 12:48 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	3 hr
May 19, 3:16 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
May 19, 4:57 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	3 hr
May 19, 5:37 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	17 hr
May 19, 6:00 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	3 hr
May 19, 6:05 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	3 hr
May 19, 6:22 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
May 19, 8:44 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	54 hr
May 19, 8:44 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	33 hr
May 19, 8:44 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Otero	13 days
May 19, 3:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	42 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Colorado, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.