Alert archive / Colorado / Special Weather Statements in 2015
Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2015, 2:25 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2015, 2:25 PM MDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2015, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Otero County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:07 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 65 | 8 Ese Higbee, CO | |
| Aug 7, 3:07 PM MDT | HAIL 1.25 | 8 Ese Higbee, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3310 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
870 WWUS85 KPUB 072025 SPSPUB SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 225 PM MDT FRI AUG 7 2015 COZ093-094-097-072115- LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY CO-EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY CO- LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY CO- 225 PM MDT FRI AUG 7 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN OTERO...NORTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTHWESTERN BENT COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM MDT... AT 225 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES EAST OF THATCHER...OR 30 MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN OTERO...NORTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTHWESTERN BENT COUNTIES. LAT...LON 3745 10320 3743 10387 3773 10375 3780 10302 TIME...MOT...LOC 2025Z 201DEG 26KT 3755 10369 $$ HODANISH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 3:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 3:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 3:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 3:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 4:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 4:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 41 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.