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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 12, 2017Bent County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 12, 2017, 9:10 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 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 12, 2017, 9:10 PM MDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 12, 2017, 9:45 PM MDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Bent County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 2378 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

675 
WWUS85 KPUB 130310
SPSPUB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
910 PM MDT SAT AUG 12 2017
 
COZ097-130345-
Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County CO-
910 PM MDT SAT AUG 12 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN BENT COUNTY UNTIL 945 PM
MDT...

At 909 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Las Animas, or 22 miles northeast of North La Junta, moving southeast
at 15 mph.

Dime size hail and winds in excess of 30 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Las Animas, Hasty, John Martin Reservoir, Fort Lyon and Caddoa. 

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 3806 10328 3822 10317 3809 10278 3786 10296
TIME...MOT...LOC 0309Z 301DEG 14KT 3811 10315 

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 12, 6:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	89 min
Aug 12, 6:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	90 min
Aug 12, 7:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	91 min
Aug 12, 7:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	40 min
Aug 12, 7:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	37 min
Aug 12, 8:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	50 min
Aug 12, 8:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	48 min
Aug 12, 9:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	50 min
Aug 12, 9:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent, Prowers	24 min
Aug 12, 10:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	26 min
Aug 12, 11:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	24 min
Aug 13, 1:40 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	35 min
Aug 13, 12:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	37 min
Aug 13, 1:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Conejos	31 min
Aug 13, 2:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Conejos	36 min
Aug 13, 2:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Conejos	29 min
Aug 13, 2:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	24 min
Aug 13, 2:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		35 min
Aug 13, 2:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	46 min
Aug 13, 2:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	29 min
Aug 13, 3:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	45 min
Aug 13, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	42 min
Aug 13, 4:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	28 min
Aug 13, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	46 min
Aug 13, 4:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	26 min
Aug 13, 5:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	31 min
Aug 13, 5:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	34 min
Aug 13, 5:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	15 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.