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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 27, 2018Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2018, 3:37 AM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 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 27, 2018, 3:37 AM MDT (09:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2018, 4:15 AM MDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 288 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: 585 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -0.7

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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 27, 1:50 AM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 1:50 AM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 9:27 PM MDT, 6 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 26, 11:21 PM MDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 2:04 AM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 2:50 AM MDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:37 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
Jul 26, 6:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 26, 6:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	35 min
Jul 26, 6:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	25 min
Jul 26, 7:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	31 min
Jul 27, 2:04 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	41 min
Jul 27, 2:50 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	40 min
Jul 27, 12:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Conejos	44 min
Jul 27, 12:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	47 min
Jul 27, 12:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	35 min
Jul 27, 1:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Chaffee, Fremont	26 min
Jul 27, 1:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	52 min
Jul 27, 1:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	28 min
Jul 27, 1:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	47 min
Jul 27, 1:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Huerfano	3 hr
Jul 27, 2:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	44 min
Jul 27, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Pueblo	35 min
Jul 27, 2:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	26 min
Jul 27, 2:51 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	105 min
Jul 27, 3:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Pueblo	27 min
Jul 27, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	31 min
Jul 27, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	16 min
Jul 27, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	35 min
Jul 27, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	32 min
Jul 27, 4:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	34 min
Jul 27, 4:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	25 min
Jul 27, 5:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	25 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.