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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2016, 2:22 PM MDT for Chaffee County, Colorado. It was in force for 23 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 3, 2016, 2:22 PM MDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2016, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Chaffee County, CO
The radar
The Grand Junction radar (KGJX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
130 WWUS85 KPUB 032022 SPSPUB SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 222 PM MDT WED AUG 3 2016 COZ060>062-032045- WESTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY BETWEEN 9000 AND 11000 FT CO- CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY BELOW 9000 FT CO- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT CO- 222 PM MDT WED AUG 3 2016 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... AT 221 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM EAST OF ALPINE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... THE SOUTH FLANK OF MOUNT PRINCETON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3861 10630 3879 10638 3884 10619 3868 10608 TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 250DEG 17KT 3874 10625 $$ TLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 6:02 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:49 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont and 7 more | 41 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 3:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 49 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.