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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 28, 2017Elbert County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2017, 9:49 PM MDT for Elbert 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: Jun 28, 2017, 9:49 PM MDT (03:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2017, 10:30 PM MDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Elbert County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 218 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 28, 7:46 PM MDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 7:46 PM MDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 9:49 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 1:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	44 min
Jun 29, 1:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	32 min
Jun 29, 1:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	39 min
Jun 29, 2:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	13 min
Jun 29, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	46 min
Jun 29, 3:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa	63 min
Jun 29, 4:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	25 min
Jun 29, 4:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	39 min
Jun 29, 4:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	12 min
Jun 29, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	17 min
Jun 29, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	33 min
Jun 29, 5:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	38 min
Jun 29, 5:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	48 min

Nearby

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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.