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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 14, 2018Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2018, 11:48 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 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 14, 2018, 11:48 PM MDT (05:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2018, 12:30 AM MDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO

County Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2018-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 507 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2018-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
507 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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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 Aug 14, 11:30 PM MDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 11:30 PM MDT, 18 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 11:34 PM MDT, 14 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 14, 9:51 PM MDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
951 PM MDT TUE AUG 14 2018

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0940 PM     HEAVY RAIN       1 NE SECURITY           38.75N 104.72W
08/14/2018  M1.51 INCH       EL PASO            CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            FELL IN PAST 40 MINUTES.

&&
Local storm report, Aug 14, 9:52 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
952 PM MDT TUE AUG 14 2018

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0951 PM     HEAVY RAIN       4 NW PETERSON AFB       38.88N 104.74W
08/14/2018  M1.64 INCH       EL PASO            CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&
Local storm report, Aug 14, 9:57 PM MDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
957 PM MDT TUE AUG 14 2018

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0830 PM     FLASH FLOOD      1 SSE LA VETA PASS      37.57N 105.17W
08/14/2018                   HUERFANO           CO   EMERGENCY MNGR

            FLOODING OVER COUNTY ROAD 442 AT SOUTH
            ABEYTA CREEK.

&&
Local storm report, Aug 14, 9:59 PM MDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
959 PM MDT TUE AUG 14 2018

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0830 PM     FLASH FLOOD      9 SSE FARISITA          37.64N 105.00W
08/14/2018                   HUERFANO           CO   EMERGENCY MNGR

            FLOODING OVER COUNTY ROAD 520 AT DOG SPRINGS
            ARROYO.

&&
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 11:22 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 11:48 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 6:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBHuerfano35 min
Aug 14, 6:29 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBCostilla, Huerfano3 hr
Aug 14, 7:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBHuerfano30 min
Aug 14, 7:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas27 min
Aug 14, 7:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas29 min
Aug 14, 7:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso35 min
Aug 14, 8:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBHuerfano44 min
Aug 14, 9:01 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBEl Paso, Teller67 min
Aug 14, 9:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller25 min
Aug 14, 9:09 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBEl Paso83 min
Aug 14, 9:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso, Teller31 min
Aug 14, 9:29 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBCostilla, Huerfano61 min
Aug 14, 10:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley, El Paso, Pueblo41 min
Aug 14, 11:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller23 min
Aug 15, 1:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBLas Animas46 min
Aug 15, 1:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas38 min
Aug 15, 4:01 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBCostilla, Huerfano3 hr
Aug 15, 4:09 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBCuster, Fremont, Pueblo3 hr
Aug 15, 5:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBEl Paso29 min
Aug 15, 5:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUB41 min
Aug 15, 5:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso38 min
Aug 15, 5:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBent28 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Colorado, 2018Every special weather statement in 2018

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.