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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2017, 5:33 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 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 6, 2017, 5:33 PM MDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2017, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
877 WWUS85 KPUB 062333 SPSPUB Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Pueblo CO 533 PM MDT SUN AUG 6 2017 COZ086-087-070000- Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet CO- Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft CO- 533 PM MDT SUN AUG 6 2017 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO AND SOUTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM MDT... At 533 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 16 miles east of Greenhorn Mountain, or 26 miles south of Pueblo, moving northeast at 25 mph. Nickel size hail will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Colorado City. LAT...LON 3777 10470 3790 10486 3818 10458 3799 10434 TIME...MOT...LOC 2333Z 225DEG 22KT 3790 10472 $$ PGW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 6:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 56 min |
| Aug 5, 7:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 45 min |
| Aug 5, 7:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 9:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 9:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 9:39 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 111 min |
| Aug 5, 10:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 2:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 2:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 5:21 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 114 min |
| Aug 6, 5:40 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso | 110 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.