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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 9, 2015Fremont County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2015, 6:21 PM MDT for Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 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
Jul 9, 2015, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2015, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

County Fremont County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 230 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2015-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 148 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2015-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

242 
WWUS85 KPUB 100021
SPSPUB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
621 PM MDT THU JUL 9 2015
 
COZ079-081-083-085-086-100100-
COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW
7400 FT CO-CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY CO-
PUEBLO VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FEET CO-
TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500FT/PIKE'S PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND
11000 FT CO-WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000FT CO-
621 PM MDT THU JUL 9 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO...
NORTHEASTERN CUSTER...SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO AND SOUTHEASTERN FREMONT
COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM MDT...

AT 620 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
FLORENCE...OR 26 MILES WEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FLORENCE...CANON CITY AND PENROSE. 

LAT...LON 3825 10498 3825 10520 3857 10527 3857 10492
TIME...MOT...LOC 0020Z 179DEG 12KT 3833 10510 

$$

KT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 6:08 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBEl Paso3 hr
Jul 9, 6:25 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBEl Paso, Teller2 hr
Jul 9, 6:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso33 min
Jul 9, 6:33 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBEl Paso3 hr
Jul 9, 6:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBFremont38 min
Jul 9, 6:49 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBEl Paso, Fremont, Pueblo3 hr
Jul 9, 6:49 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBEl Paso4 hr
Jul 9, 7:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBaca45 min
Jul 9, 7:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca27 min
Jul 9, 8:46 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningPUBEl Paso3 hr
Jul 9, 9:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso38 min
Jul 9, 9:53 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso52 min
Jul 9, 10:20 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBEl Paso115 min
Jul 10, 3:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBFremont48 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.