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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2015, 7:28 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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 9, 2015, 7:28 PM MDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2015, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 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 01:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Aug 9, 5:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 5:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 11:32 AM MDT, 7 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1132 AM MDT SUN AUG 9 2015 COZ058>089-093>099-101745- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- LEADVILLE VICINITY/LAKE COUNTY BELOW 11000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- WESTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY BETWEEN 9000 AND 11000 FT- CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY BELOW 9000 FT- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST CHAFFEE COUNTY ABOVE 9000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY WEST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY EAST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- LA GARITA MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY/EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS BELOW 10000 FT- EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FEET- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500 FT- WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET- WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000 FT- WET MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500 FT/PIKES PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT-PIKES PEAK ABOVE 11000 FT- CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT-PUEBLO AND VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- CROWLEY COUNTY-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY-LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY-SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- 1132 AM MDT SUN AUG 9 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION...ONE OR TWO STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...PARTICULARLY ACROSS PORTIONS OF CROWLEY...OTERO...KIOWA...BENT...PROWERS...BACA AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES. HAIL UP TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE AND LOCALIZED WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH WILL BE THE PRIMARY STORM THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY...PRIMARILY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THE MAIN STORM THREATS WILL BE LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...HOWEVER SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO PLAINS. 31/13
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 3:23 PM MDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 323 PM MDT SUN AUG 9 2015 COZ085-092145- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT CO- 323 PM MDT SUN AUG 9 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM MDT... AT 323 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RUSH...OR 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 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 EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY. LAT...LON 3870 10416 3883 10405 3863 10405 TIME...MOT...LOC 2123Z 298DEG 8KT 3875 10405 KT
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 7:28 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
728 PM MDT SUN AUG 9 2015
COZ094-100215-
EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY CO-
728 PM MDT SUN AUG 9 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
UNTIL 815 PM MDT...
AT 728 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 22
MILES NORTHWEST OF KIM...OR 35 MILES SOUTH OF NORTH LA JUNTA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN LAS
ANIMAS COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
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LAT...LON 3735 10362 3752 10373 3764 10361 3764 10341
3746 10338
TIME...MOT...LOC 0128Z 229DEG 7KT 3747 10363
LWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 10:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 47 min |
| Aug 10, 12:09 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 36 min |
| Aug 10, 12:26 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 34 min |
| Aug 10, 12:50 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 115 min |
| Aug 10, 11:43 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 47 min |
| Aug 10, 11:56 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 34 min |
| Aug 10, 12:42 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 34 min |
| Aug 10, 1:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 50 min |
| Aug 10, 3:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 38 min |
| Aug 10, 4:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Pueblo | 117 min |
| Aug 10, 4:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 5:13 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 5:50 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 115 min |
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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.