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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 10, 2015El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 10, 2015, 12:09 AM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 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 10, 2015, 12:09 AM MDT (06:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2015, 12:45 AM MDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

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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, 11:08 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 11:08 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 11:12 PM MDT, 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 9, 7:28 PM MDT, 4 hours 41 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.

&&

LAT...LON 3735 10362 3752 10373 3764 10361 3764 10341
      3746 10338
TIME...MOT...LOC 0128Z 229DEG 7KT 3747 10363

LW

Special weather statement, Aug 9, 10:13 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1013 PM MDT SUN AUG 9 2015

COZ086>088-100500-
WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT CO-
TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT CO-
PUEBLO VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FEET CO-
1013 PM MDT SUN AUG 9 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL PUEBLO...NORTH
CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM
MDT...

AT 1013 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES SOUTH OF BLENDE TO
9 MILES EAST OF WALSENBURG...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
PUEBLO...NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3800 10428 3737 10440 3761 10468 3814 10456
TIME...MOT...LOC 0413Z 323DEG 12KT 3800 10453 3767 10461

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Special weather statement, Aug 10, 12:09 AM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 7:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	47 min
Aug 9, 10:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	47 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

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Colorado, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.