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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 2, 2018Bent County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jul 2, 2018, 2:41 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 2018, 2:41 PM MDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2018, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Bent County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 246 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.

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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: 3398 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 2, 12:51 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 12:51 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 12:10 PM MDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 2, 12:27 PM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
1227 PM MDT MON JUL 2 2018

COZ074-088-021915-
Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Ft CO-
Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft CO-
1227 PM MDT MON JUL 2 2018

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
UNTIL 115 PM MDT...

At 1227 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Trinidad, moving northeast at 25 mph.

Half inch hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Trinidad, Cokedale, Starkville, Model, Hoehne and Tyrone.

LAT...LON 3703 10443 3712 10463 3750 10445 3746 10419
      3730 10405
TIME...MOT...LOC 1827Z 211DEG 20KT 3714 10449

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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 2:41 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
241 PM MDT MON JUL 2 2018

COZ093-094-097-099-022130-
Springfield Vicinity/Baca County CO-
Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County CO-Eastern Las Animas County CO-
La Junta Vicinity/Otero County CO-
241 PM MDT MON JUL 2 2018

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN OTERO...NORTHWESTERN
BACA...EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTHERN BENT COUNTIES UNTIL 330
PM MDT...

At 241 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 11
miles southeast of Higbee, or 24 miles southeast of North La Junta,
moving northeast at 15 mph.

Half inch hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of southeastern
Otero...northwestern Baca...east central Las Animas and southern Bent
Counties.

LAT...LON 3745 10334 3762 10352 3795 10310 3783 10280
TIME...MOT...LOC 2041Z 230DEG 13KT 3770 10326

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 12:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	48 min
Jul 2, 3:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	45 min
Jul 2, 3:13 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 6 more	6 hr
Jul 2, 3:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	45 min
Jul 2, 3:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca, Prowers	48 min
Jul 2, 4:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	36 min
Jul 2, 4:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca, Prowers	44 min
Jul 2, 4:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	24 min
Jul 2, 5:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	16 min

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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.