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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2016, 12:46 PM MDT for Alamosa County, Colorado. It was in force for 44 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 5, 2016, 12:46 PM MDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2016, 1:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Alamosa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 299 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Aug 5, 11:34 AM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 11:34 AM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 12:46 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1246 PM MDT FRI AUG 5 2016 COZ069>073-087-051930- DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT CO- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT CO- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT CO- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY CO- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT CO- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT CO- 1246 PM MDT FRI AUG 5 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN ALAMOSA... SOUTHEASTERN SAGUACHE...NORTH CENTRAL COSTILLA AND WEST CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTIES UNTIL 130 PM MDT... AT 1245 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLANCA...OR 13 MILES EAST OF ALAMOSA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RED WING...GREAT SAND DUNES AND BLANCA PEAK. 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. && LAT...LON 3742 10559 3754 10576 3789 10547 3771 10522 TIME...MOT...LOC 1845Z 219DEG 25KT 3754 10564 KT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 3:04 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more | 31 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:46 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Las Animas | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Las Animas | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Baca | 3 hr |
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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.