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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
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.
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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, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 6:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 91 min |
| Aug 3, 7:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 95 min |
| Aug 3, 7:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 92 min |
| Aug 3, 7:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 8:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 9:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 10:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Otero | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 11:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero | 57 min |
| Aug 4, 12:13 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 47 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.