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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 6, 2016Fremont County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 5:20 PM MDT for Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 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 6, 2016, 5:20 PM MDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2016, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Fremont County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 255 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: 95 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1151 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

308 
WWUS85 KPUB 062320
SPSPUB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
520 PM MDT SAT AUG 6 2016
 
COZ069-072-073-077-078-070000-
WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT CO-
DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT CO-
WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT CO-
NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT CO-
NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT CO-
520 PM MDT SAT AUG 6 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN SAGUACHE...SOUTH
CENTRAL FREMONT AND NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM MDT...

AT 517 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES EAST OF VILLA GROVE...OR 52 MILES NORTH OF ALAMOSA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF
THE HAYDEN PASS AND DUCKETT BURN SCARS. 

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND BRIEF MODERATE RAINFALL WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. 

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN
SAGUACHE...SOUTH CENTRAL FREMONT AND NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTIES.

LAT...LON 3817 10587 3827 10592 3838 10571 3821 10559
TIME...MOT...LOC 2317Z 245DEG 11KT 3823 10582 

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MW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 6:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca, Prowers	3 hr
Aug 5, 8:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	2 hr
Aug 5, 9:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca	2 hr
Aug 6, 3:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	44 min
Aug 6, 4:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	37 min
Aug 6, 4:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	40 min
Aug 6, 5:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	84 min
Aug 6, 5:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	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.