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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 21, 2018Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jul 21, 2018, 6:21 PM MDT for Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 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: Jul 21, 2018, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2018, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Crowley County, CO, Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

364 
WWUS85 KPUB 220021
SPSPUB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
621 PM MDT SAT JUL 21 2018
 
COZ089-093-095-220100-
Crowley County CO-Western Kiowa County CO-
La Junta Vicinity/Otero County CO-
621 PM MDT SAT JUL 21 2018

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN OTERO...SOUTHWESTERN
KIOWA AND CROWLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM MDT...

At 621 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Crowley, or 26 miles northwest of La Junta, moving southeast at 25
mph.

Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Rocky Ford, Fowler, Ordway, Swink, Manzanola, Olney Springs, Sugar
City, Crowley and Timpas.

LAT...LON 3782 10406 3852 10405 3851 10333 3774 10380
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 297DEG 22KT 3828 10385 

$$

KTS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 7:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Costilla, Huerfano	84 min
Jul 21, 8:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	17 min
Jul 22, 1:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	37 min
Jul 22, 1:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	27 min
Jul 22, 2:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	27 min
Jul 22, 2:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	36 min
Jul 22, 2:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	26 min
Jul 22, 2:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	37 min
Jul 22, 2:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	25 min
Jul 22, 2:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	44 min
Jul 22, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	30 min
Jul 22, 3:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	27 min
Jul 22, 3:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	50 min
Jul 22, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	31 min
Jul 22, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	31 min
Jul 22, 4:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Elbert	34 min
Jul 22, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	47 min
Jul 22, 4:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	21 min
Jul 22, 4:43 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Costilla, Huerfano	3 hr
Jul 22, 4:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	47 min
Jul 22, 4:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		30 min
Jul 22, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	35 min
Jul 22, 5:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	40 min
Jul 22, 5:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	38 min
Jul 22, 5:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	47 min
Jul 22, 5:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	45 min
Jul 22, 5:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	40 min
Jul 22, 5:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		35 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.