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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2016, 12:51 AM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 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
- Jul 27, 2016, 12:51 AM MDT (06:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2016, 1:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Jul 26, 11:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 11:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 8:57 PM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 857 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016 COZ095-096-270345- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY CO-WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY CO- 857 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY UNTIL 945 PM MDT... AT 857 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR EADS...OR 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... EADS AND CHIVINGTON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 3836 10252 3850 10291 3862 10286 3861 10242 TIME...MOT...LOC 0257Z 287DEG 13KT 3857 10279 KT
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 9:39 PM MDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 939 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016 COZ096-098-270430- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY CO-EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY CO- 939 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN PROWERS AND EASTERN KIOWA COUNTIES UNTIL 1030 PM MDT... AT 938 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BRANDON...OR 19 MILES SOUTH OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SHERIDAN LAKE...BRANDON...CHIVINGTON AND TOWNER. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 3837 10257 3861 10251 3861 10205 3826 10205 TIME...MOT...LOC 0338Z 294DEG 25KT 3854 10242 KT
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 10:32 PM MDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1032 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016
COZ096-098-270515-
LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY CO-EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY CO-
1032 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN PROWERS AND SOUTHEASTERN
KIOWA COUNTIES UNTIL 1115 PM MDT...
AT 1032 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES NORTHWEST OF BRISTOL...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMAR...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GRANADA...HARTMAN AND BRISTOL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
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LAT...LON 3791 10224 3814 10262 3842 10246 3830 10204
3821 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0432Z 293DEG 14KT 3825 10244
KTSpecial weather statement, Jul 26, 11:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 26, 8:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 9:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 51 min |
| Jul 26, 9:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 42 min |
| Jul 26, 10:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 43 min |
| Jul 26, 10:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 39 min |
| Jul 26, 11:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 52 min |
| Jul 27, 12:56 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Prowers | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 52 min |
| Jul 27, 3:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 52 min |
| Jul 27, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 46 min |
| Jul 27, 5:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 41 min |
| Jul 27, 5:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 24 min |
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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.