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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 6, 2016Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 8:01 PM MDT for Baca 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 6, 2016, 8:01 PM MDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2016, 8:45 PM MDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 212 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 440 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 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
440 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

351 
WWUS85 KPUB 070201
SPSPUB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
801 PM MDT SAT AUG 6 2016
 
COZ099-070245-
SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY CO-
801 PM MDT SAT AUG 6 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY UNTIL
845 PM MDT...

AT 800 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD TO 6 MILES SOUTH
OF CAMPO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WALSH...VILAS...CAMPO AND STONINGTON. 

LAT...LON 3699 10265 3737 10267 3749 10204 3700 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0200Z 264DEG 26KT 3731 10260 3701 10258 

$$

EP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 6:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBaca39 min
Aug 6, 6:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBKiowa42 min
Aug 6, 7:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBaca41 min
Aug 7, 2:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBHuerfano45 min
Aug 7, 2:20 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBHuerfano, Pueblo3 hr
Aug 7, 2:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso26 min
Aug 7, 3:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller32 min
Aug 7, 4:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBLas Animas42 min
Aug 7, 4:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller81 min
Aug 7, 4:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBaca89 min
Aug 7, 5:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBSaguache92 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.