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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 8, 2017El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jun 8, 2017, 12:42 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 8, 2017, 12:42 PM MDT (18:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2017, 1:30 PM MDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 320 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 323 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 Jun 8, 11:24 AM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 11:24 AM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 11:41 AM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 11:59 AM MDT, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1159 AM MDT THU JUN 8 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0430 PM     FLASH FLOOD      6 S WETMORE             38.15N 105.07W
06/07/2017                   CUSTER             CO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            FLASH FLOODING OFF JUNKINS BURN SCAR
            OCCURRED ACROSS HIGHWAY 387 IN 8 PLACES
            DEPOSITING ROCKS AND DEBRIS ON ROADWAY AND
            BRIEFLY SHUTTING DOWN THE HIGHWAY. RUNOFF
            DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY BY 500 PM.

&&

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 12:42 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
1242 PM MDT THU JUN 8 2017

COZ081-084-085-081930-
Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below
7400 Ft CO-
Teller County/Rampart Range above 7500fT/Pike's Peak Between 7500 And
11000 Ft CO-
Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Ft
CO-
1242 PM MDT THU JUN 8 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 130
PM MDT...

At 1242 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
western Colorado Springs, moving southeast at 15 mph.

Dime size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Colorado Springs, Fountain, Air Force Academy, Manitou Springs,
Stratmoor, Fort Carson, Security, Peterson AFB, Security-Widefield
and Cimarron Hills.

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.

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LAT...LON 3887 10495 3905 10495 3883 10452 3864 10472
TIME...MOT...LOC 1842Z 315DEG 14KT 3889 10485

KT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 6:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	44 min
Jun 7, 6:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	46 min
Jun 7, 7:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	38 min
Jun 7, 8:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	44 min
Jun 7, 11:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	38 min
Jun 8, 1:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Conejos	32 min
Jun 8, 4:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Rio Grande	47 min
Jun 8, 4:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	46 min
Jun 8, 4:52 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Rio Grande	3 hr
Jun 8, 5:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	28 min
Jun 8, 5:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	24 min
Jun 8, 5:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	29 min
Jun 8, 5:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Huerfano	3 hr

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.