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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

September 23, 2016Bent County, Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Sep 23, 2016, 8:30 PM MDT for Bent County, Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 90 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 23, 2016, 8:30 PM MDT (02:30 UTC)
Expired: Sep 23, 2016, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 90 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 294 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -429 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 23, 6:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	88 min
Sep 23, 7:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	52 min
Sep 23, 7:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	85 min
Sep 23, 9:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	86 min
Sep 23, 9:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca, Prowers	94 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.