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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 31, 2016Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 31, 2016, 6:33 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 87 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 31, 2016, 6:33 PM MDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired: Aug 31, 2016, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 87 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1138 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 31, 7:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	82 min
Aug 31, 8:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		89 min
Aug 31, 8:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Saguache	3 hr
Aug 31, 9:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Chaffee	3 hr
Aug 31, 9:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	90 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Colorado, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.