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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Sep 17, 2016, 3:49 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 41 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
- Sep 17, 2016, 3:49 PM MDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2016, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 874 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Sep 17, 3:44 PM MDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 3:44 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1145 AM MDT SAT SEP 17 2016 COZ058>089-093>099-181745- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- LEADVILLE VICINITY/LAKE COUNTY BELOW 11000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- WESTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY BETWEEN 9000 AND 11000 FT- CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY BELOW 9000 FT- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST CHAFFEE COUNTY ABOVE 9000FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY WEST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY EAST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- LA GARITA MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY/EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS BELOW 10000 FT- EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500FT- WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000FT- WET MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500FT/PIKE'S PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT-PIKES PEAK ABOVE 11000 FT- CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT-PUEBLO VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FEET- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- CROWLEY COUNTY-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY-LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY-SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- 1145 AM MDT SAT SEP 17 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND SPREAD EASTWARD ACROSS THE PLAINS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM MOST STORMS TODAY WILL BE LIGHTNING...WINDS TO AROUND 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. FOR THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS...INCLUDING KIOWA...BENT...PROWERS...BACA AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY. THESE STORMS WILL BE STRONGER THAN THE ONES FARTHER WEST WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR 60 MPH WINDS...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL BE SLIGHT CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WITH PRIMARY THREATS OF LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND SPOTTY HEAVY RAINFALL. WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. GUSTS TO 50 MPH IN COMBINATION WITH DRY FUELS WILL ELEVATE THE RANGELAND FIRE DANGER DURING THIS PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS INCLUDING KIOWA...BENT...PROWERS...BACA AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES. 50/50
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 17, 1:49 PM MDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 149 PM MDT SAT SEP 17 2016 COZ093-172030- LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY CO- 149 PM MDT SAT SEP 17 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN OTERO COUNTY UNTIL 230 PM MDT... AT 149 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR TIMPAS...OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TIMPAS AND HIGBEE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PUEBLO. && LAT...LON 3765 10381 3780 10389 3798 10360 3775 10341 TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 239DEG 20KT 3775 10377 MOORE
Special weather statement, Sep 17, 2:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 200 PM MDT SAT SEP 17 2016 COZ094-099-172045- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY CO-SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY CO- 200 PM MDT SAT SEP 17 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND WEST CENTRAL BACA COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM MDT... AT 159 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES NORTH OF KIM...OR 35 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND WEST CENTRAL BACA COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PUEBLO. && LAT...LON 3735 10331 3752 10341 3764 10312 3741 10293 TIME...MOT...LOC 1959Z 237DEG 10KT 3747 10326 MOORE
Special weather statement, Sep 17, 2:33 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 12:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 42 min |
| Sep 17, 1:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 41 min |
| Sep 17, 1:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 45 min |
| Sep 17, 1:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 50 min |
| Sep 17, 1:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 44 min |
| Sep 17, 1:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 41 min |
| Sep 17, 2:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 45 min |
| Sep 17, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 35 min |
| Sep 17, 2:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 42 min |
| Sep 17, 3:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 44 min |
| Sep 17, 3:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 36 min |
| Sep 17, 3:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 50 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.