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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 22, 2018Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jun 22, 2018, 3:42 AM MDT for Prowers 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 22, 2018, 3:42 AM MDT (09:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2018, 4:30 AM MDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 21, 11:49 PM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 11:49 PM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 11:10 PM MDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 11:48 PM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 12:10 AM MDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:42 AM 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 21, 6:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	31 min
Jun 21, 7:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	25 min
Jun 21, 8:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	27 min
Jun 21, 11:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		27 min
Jun 22, 12:10 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		35 min
Jun 22, 4:11 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont and 7 more	11 hr
Jun 22, 11:21 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	24 min
Jun 22, 11:48 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	27 min
Jun 22, 12:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	28 min
Jun 22, 12:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	26 min
Jun 22, 12:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	48 min
Jun 22, 1:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	32 min
Jun 22, 2:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	37 min
Jun 22, 2:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	52 min
Jun 22, 2:54 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont and 7 more	30 hr
Jun 22, 3:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	33 min
Jun 22, 3:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	25 min
Jun 22, 3:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	45 min
Jun 22, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	50 min
Jun 22, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	42 min
Jun 22, 4:08 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	19 min
Jun 22, 4:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	34 min
Jun 22, 4:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	24 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Colorado, 2018 Every special weather statement in 2018

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.