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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 3, 2015Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2015, 7:13 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 92 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
Aug 3, 2015, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2015, 8:45 PM MDT
In force
92 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 283 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 2015-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 19 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2015-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -59 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-179 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-56 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.

853 
WWUS85 KPUB 040113
SPSPUB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
713 PM MDT MON AUG 3 2015
 
COZ074-088-094-040245-
SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT CO-
TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT CO-
EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY CO-
713 PM MDT MON AUG 3 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY UNTIL
845 PM MDT...

AT 713 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
HOEHNE...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KIM...BRANSON...THATCHER...TRINCHERA...MODEL AND TYRONE. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO 
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED 
ROADWAYS.

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.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3770 10436 3758 10392 3733 10332 3700 10333
      3699 10438
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 276DEG 20KT 3725 10428 

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 6:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBFremont91 min
Aug 3, 7:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBLas Animas95 min
Aug 3, 7:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso, Teller92 min
Aug 3, 7:48 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningPUBEl Paso, Teller3 hr
Aug 3, 8:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBFremont44 min
Aug 3, 8:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBPueblo46 min
Aug 3, 9:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBPueblo49 min
Aug 3, 10:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBent, Otero51 min
Aug 3, 11:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero57 min
Aug 4, 12:13 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBProwers47 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.