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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 26, 2019

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2019, 4:42 PM MDT. It was in force for 63 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 26, 2019, 4:42 PM MDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2019, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 312 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 25, 7:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Las Animas, Otero	116 min
Jul 26, 4:07 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 3 more	17 hr
Jul 26, 3:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	23 min
Jul 26, 3:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	39 min
Jul 26, 3:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	22 min
Jul 26, 5:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	85 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Colorado, 2019 Every special weather statement in 2019

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.