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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 22, 2018Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2018, 6:21 PM MDT for Las Animas 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 22, 2018, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2018, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 279 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: 58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 316 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

928 
WWUS85 KPUB 230021
SPSPUB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
621 PM MDT SUN JUL 22 2018
 
COZ087-088-230100-
Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft CO-
Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft CO-
621 PM MDT SUN JUL 22 2018

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL HUERFANO AND NORTH
CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM MDT...

At 621 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 12
miles east of Walsenburg, or 28 miles north of Trinidad, moving east
at 15 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Tyrone.

LAT...LON 3747 10467 3768 10466 3769 10409 3741 10410
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 273DEG 12KT 3758 10456 

$$

KTS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 6:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	52 min
Jul 22, 6:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	51 min
Jul 22, 6:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	30 min
Jul 22, 6:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	29 min
Jul 22, 6:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	24 min
Jul 22, 7:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	43 min
Jul 22, 7:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	44 min
Jul 22, 7:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Kiowa	2 hr
Jul 22, 7:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	39 min
Jul 22, 7:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	50 min
Jul 22, 8:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	36 min
Jul 22, 8:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	45 min
Jul 22, 8:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	46 min
Jul 22, 8:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Bent, Prowers	114 min
Jul 22, 8:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	36 min
Jul 22, 8:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	33 min
Jul 22, 9:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	26 min
Jul 22, 9:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	62 min
Jul 22, 10:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	48 min
Jul 22, 11:13 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Costilla, Crowley and 11 more	25 hr
Jul 23, 1:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	27 min
Jul 23, 1:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	34 min
Jul 23, 1:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	44 min
Jul 23, 2:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	44 min
Jul 23, 2:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	51 min
Jul 23, 2:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	49 min
Jul 23, 2:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont	32 min
Jul 23, 2:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	40 min
Jul 23, 2:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		37 min
Jul 23, 2:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	52 min
Jul 23, 2:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		31 min
Jul 23, 3:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	51 min
Jul 23, 3:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	31 min
Jul 23, 3:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso, Teller	3 hr
Jul 23, 3:48 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	27 min
Jul 23, 4:07 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	3 hr
Jul 23, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	46 min
Jul 23, 4:21 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 23, 4:22 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Costilla, Huerfano	3 hr
Jul 23, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	26 min
Jul 23, 4:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 23, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	49 min
Jul 23, 5:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	46 min
Jul 23, 5:20 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	25 min
Jul 23, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	64 min
Jul 23, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	49 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.