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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 6, 2018Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2018, 11:25 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 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: Aug 6, 2018, 11:25 PM MDT (05:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2018, 12:00 AM MDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:26 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 1181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 4.5

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The text

As transmitted.

793 
WWUS85 KPUB 070525
SPSPUB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
1125 PM MDT MON AUG 6 2018
 
COZ085-086-070600-
Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet CO-
Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below
7400 Ft CO-
1125 PM MDT MON AUG 6 2018

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL EL PASO AND NORTH
CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT...

At 1125 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Pinon, or 16 miles north of Pueblo, moving southeast at 10 mph.

Nickel size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Northwestern Pueblo, Pinon and Pueblo West. 

LAT...LON 3851 10478 3860 10458 3849 10428 3826 10466
TIME...MOT...LOC 0525Z 329DEG 8KT 3850 10464 

$$

Hodanish

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 6:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	47 min
Aug 6, 6:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	41 min
Aug 6, 6:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	47 min
Aug 6, 6:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	46 min
Aug 6, 7:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	27 min
Aug 6, 7:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero	48 min
Aug 6, 7:17 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Las Animas	28 min
Aug 6, 7:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	28 min
Aug 6, 7:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	29 min
Aug 6, 7:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	24 min
Aug 6, 8:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	29 min
Aug 6, 8:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	38 min
Aug 6, 8:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		43 min
Aug 6, 8:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	32 min
Aug 6, 8:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	45 min
Aug 6, 9:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	49 min
Aug 6, 10:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Elbert	15 min
Aug 6, 10:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	3 hr
Aug 6, 11:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		52 min
Aug 6, 11:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	41 min
Aug 7, 12:07 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	38 min
Aug 7, 12:25 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	2 hr
Aug 7, 12:27 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	22 min
Aug 7, 1:06 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	84 min
Aug 7, 1:46 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	74 min
Aug 7, 2:18 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	3 hr
Aug 7, 3:44 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 5 more	20 hr
Aug 7, 2:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	50 min
Aug 7, 2:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	26 min
Aug 7, 2:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	24 min
Aug 7, 2:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	48 min
Aug 7, 3:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	45 min
Aug 7, 3:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	40 min
Aug 7, 3:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	23 min
Aug 7, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	31 min
Aug 7, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	15 min
Aug 7, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	32 min
Aug 7, 3:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	26 min
Aug 7, 4:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	23 min
Aug 7, 4:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	45 min
Aug 7, 4:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	28 min
Aug 7, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	47 min
Aug 7, 5:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Las Animas	112 min
Aug 7, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer	44 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.