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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 28, 2016Fremont County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2016, 5:33 PM MDT for Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 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 28, 2016, 5:33 PM MDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2016, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Fremont County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 781 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 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 28, 2:50 PM MDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 2:50 PM MDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 11:02 AM MDT, 6 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 12:44 PM MDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 4:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 4:45 PM MDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:11 PM MDT, 22 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
511 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2016

COZ076-077-282345-
WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT CO-
NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY  ABOVE 8500FT CO-
511 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY
UNTIL 545 PM MDT...

AT 511 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES NORTHWEST OF WAUGH MOUNTAIN...OR 50 MILES WEST OF COLORADO
SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL
BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAUGH MOUNTAIN.

LAT...LON 3865 10538 3848 10563 3868 10586 3869 10585
      3870 10553
TIME...MOT...LOC 2311Z 303DEG 12KT 3871 10575

MW

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:33 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
533 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2016

COZ076-077-079-083-290000-
WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT CO-
WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000FT CO-
NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY  ABOVE 8500FT CO-
CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY CO-
533 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY UNTIL 600
PM MDT...

AT 533 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
TEXAS CREEK...OR 43 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING EAST
AT 15 MPH.

HEAVY RAIN...DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROYAL GORGE AND CANON CITY.

LAT...LON 3839 10554 3849 10556 3858 10527 3838 10526
TIME...MOT...LOC 2333Z 257DEG 15KT 3845 10547

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 6:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	23 min
Jun 27, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	65 min
Jun 27, 7:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	29 min
Jun 27, 7:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	34 min
Jun 28, 12:56 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	49 min
Jun 28, 2:29 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	46 min
Jun 28, 12:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Rio Grande	31 min
Jun 28, 3:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	35 min
Jun 28, 4:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	43 min
Jun 28, 4:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	45 min
Jun 28, 5:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	34 min
Jun 28, 5:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	29 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Colorado, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.