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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 3, 2016Chaffee County, Colorado

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 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2016-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2016-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 6:02 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBPueblo3 hr
Aug 3, 3:49 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchPUBAlamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont and 7 more41 hr
Aug 3, 3:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller33 min
Aug 3, 3:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller49 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.