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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 16, 2017Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Apr 16, 2017, 8:12 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 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: Apr 16, 2017, 8:12 PM MDT (02:12 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2017, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 278 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: 908 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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
Apr 16, 6:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	25 min
Apr 16, 6:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	34 min
Apr 16, 6:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	24 min
Apr 16, 6:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	15 min
Apr 16, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	30 min
Apr 16, 7:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	35 min
Apr 16, 7:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	26 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Colorado, 2017 Every special weather statement in 2017

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.