Alert archive / Colorado / Special Weather Statements in 2017
Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 9, 2017, 12:21 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 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
- May 9, 2017, 12:21 PM MDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2017, 1:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Otero County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
343
WWUS85 KPUB 091821
SPSPUB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
1221 PM MDT TUE MAY 9 2017
COZ086>089-093-091915-
Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet CO-
Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft CO-
Crowley County CO-La Junta Vicinity/Otero County CO-
Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft CO-
1221 PM MDT TUE MAY 9 2017
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN OTERO...NORTHEASTERN
HUERFANO...NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS...SOUTHWESTERN CROWLEY AND
SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES UNTIL 115 PM MDT...
At 1221 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 14
miles north of Delhi, or 30 miles west of La Junta, moving north at
45 mph.
Half inch hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Rocky Ford, Fowler, Swink, Manzanola, Olney Springs, Crowley and
Timpas.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3774 10371 3766 10407 3780 10440 3816 10444
3825 10400 3811 10359
TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 188DEG 41KT 3783 10407
$$
lwThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 26 min |
| May 8, 6:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 34 min |
| May 8, 6:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Crowley, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| May 8, 6:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Pueblo | 24 min |
| May 8, 6:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 77 min |
| May 8, 6:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 26 min |
| May 8, 7:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 29 min |
| May 8, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 32 min |
| May 8, 7:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 28 min |
| May 8, 7:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 29 min |
| May 8, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 33 min |
| May 8, 8:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 24 min |
| May 8, 8:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 23 min |
| May 8, 8:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 34 min |
| May 9, 5:08 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 5 more | 17 hr |
| May 9, 12:02 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 46 hr |
| May 9, 12:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Rio Grande | 43 min |
| May 9, 12:44 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| May 9, 2:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 60 min |
| May 9, 2:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | 43 min | |
| May 9, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 35 min |
| May 9, 3:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 85 min |
| May 9, 3:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Custer, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| May 9, 3:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Las Animas, Otero | 54 min |
| May 9, 3:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Kiowa | 47 min |
| May 9, 3:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | PUB | Conejos | 24 hr |
| May 9, 3:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Crowley, Otero | 72 min |
| May 9, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Otero | 48 min |
| May 9, 4:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 23 min |
| May 9, 4:26 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | PUB | Conejos | 27 hr |
| May 9, 4:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 27 min |
| May 9, 4:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 27 min |
| May 9, 5:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 23 min |
| May 9, 5:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 35 min |
| May 9, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 30 min |
| May 9, 5:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 28 min |
| May 9, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 35 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.