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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 23, 2015El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jun 23, 2015, 6:42 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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 23, 2015, 6:42 PM MDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2015, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 1196 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.0

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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 Jun 23, 5:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 5:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 5:45 PM MDT, 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 2:41 PM MDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
241 PM MDT TUE JUN 23 2015

COZ074-075-088-232115-
SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT CO-
SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT CO-
TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT CO-
241 PM MDT TUE JUN 23 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
UNTIL 315 PM MDT...

AT 239 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
SPANISH PEAKS...OR 24 MILES WEST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GULNARE AND OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3728 10501 3739 10493 3732 10464 3711 10481
TIME...MOT...LOC 2039Z 302DEG 13KT 3728 10492

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:37 PM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 6:08 PM MDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 6:12 PM MDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 6:42 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
Jun 23, 6:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	67 min
Jun 23, 6:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	63 min
Jun 23, 6:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	63 min
Jun 23, 7:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	60 min
Jun 23, 9:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	58 min
Jun 24, 1:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	39 min
Jun 24, 2:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	38 min
Jun 24, 2:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jun 24, 3:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	41 min
Jun 24, 3:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Chaffee	3 hr
Jun 24, 3:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	39 min
Jun 24, 4:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	36 min
Jun 24, 4:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	48 min
Jun 24, 4:41 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	3 hr
Jun 24, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	35 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.