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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2017, 10:39 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 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
- Aug 2, 2017, 10:39 PM MDT (04:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2017, 11:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
613
WWUS85 KPUB 030439
SPSPUB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
1039 PM MDT WED AUG 2 2017
COZ084-085-030545-
Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below
7400 Ft CO-
Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Ft
CO-
1039 PM MDT WED AUG 2 2017
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY
UNTIL 1145 PM MDT...
At 1038 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Black Forest, or 17 miles northeast of Colorado Springs, moving south
at 20 mph.
Heavy rain, half inch hail, 40 mph winds and lightning are expected
with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Colorado Springs, Black Forest, Peterson AFB, Falcon and Cimarron
Hills.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3912 10476 3913 10461 3888 10443 3879 10458
3883 10481
TIME...MOT...LOC 0438Z 344DEG 17KT 3907 10468
$$
lwThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 29 min |
| Aug 2, 8:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 71 min |
| Aug 3, 1:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | 45 min | |
| Aug 3, 5:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer, Fremont | 3 hr |
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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.