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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 13, 2016Fremont County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jun 13, 2016, 10:09 AM MDT for Fremont 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: Jun 13, 2016, 10:09 AM MDT (16:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2016, 10:45 AM MDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Fremont County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 237 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: 223 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Jun 13, 4:09 AM MDT, 6 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 4:09 AM MDT, 6 hours before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 6:42 AM MDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 9:47 AM MDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 9:53 AM MDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 10:09 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
Jun 12, 6:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	45 min
Jun 12, 6:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	37 min
Jun 12, 6:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	16 min
Jun 12, 6:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	34 min
Jun 12, 6:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	3 hr
Jun 12, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	37 min
Jun 12, 7:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Pueblo	34 min
Jun 12, 7:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	18 min
Jun 12, 7:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	46 min
Jun 12, 7:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa	25 min
Jun 12, 8:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	48 min
Jun 12, 8:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa	43 min
Jun 12, 8:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Otero	35 min
Jun 12, 8:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	51 min
Jun 12, 8:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Otero	47 min
Jun 12, 9:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	59 min
Jun 12, 10:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Bent, Otero	3 hr
Jun 13, 9:47 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	28 min
Jun 13, 9:53 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	37 min
Jun 13, 10:23 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	37 min
Jun 13, 11:35 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	25 min
Jun 13, 11:55 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	35 min
Jun 13, 12:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	27 min
Jun 13, 12:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	29 min
Jun 13, 1:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	38 min
Jun 13, 1:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Las Animas	35 min
Jun 13, 1:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	32 min
Jun 13, 1:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	15 min
Jun 13, 1:46 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PUB	Las Animas	29 min
Jun 13, 1:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	27 min
Jun 13, 1:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	33 min
Jun 13, 2:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	27 min
Jun 13, 2:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	39 min
Jun 13, 2:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	36 min
Jun 13, 2:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Douglas	40 min
Jun 13, 2:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	24 min
Jun 13, 2:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	23 min
Jun 13, 3:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	28 min
Jun 13, 3:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	53 min
Jun 13, 3:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	32 min
Jun 13, 3:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	36 min
Jun 13, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	30 min
Jun 13, 4:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	51 min
Jun 13, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	29 min
Jun 13, 4:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	26 min
Jun 13, 4:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	30 min
Jun 13, 4:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	44 min
Jun 13, 4:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	25 min
Jun 13, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	45 min
Jun 13, 5:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	21 min
Jun 13, 5:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	39 min
Jun 13, 5:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	25 min
Jun 13, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	12 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.