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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 5, 2020El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2020, 7:33 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 12 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: Jun 5, 2020, 7:33 PM MDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2020, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 12 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 4009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 Jun 5, 3:56 PM MDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:56 PM MDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 11:32 AM MDT, 8 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 2:29 PM MDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:28 PM MDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:42 PM MDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:33 PM 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
Jun 5, 6:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	14 min
Jun 6, 10:53 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	52 min
Jun 6, 11:06 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	39 min
Jun 6, 11:18 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	42 min
Jun 6, 11:49 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	41 min
Jun 6, 12:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	44 min
Jun 6, 12:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Mineral	48 min
Jun 6, 1:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache	26 min
Jun 6, 1:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	46 min
Jun 6, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache	30 min
Jun 6, 1:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	26 min
Jun 6, 1:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Conejos, Rio Grande	14 min
Jun 6, 1:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa, Rio Grande	46 min
Jun 6, 2:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	26 min
Jun 6, 2:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	40 min
Jun 6, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Rio Grande, Saguache	35 min
Jun 6, 2:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas	32 min
Jun 6, 2:34 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Chaffee, Fremont, Saguache	83 min
Jun 6, 2:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	51 min
Jun 6, 2:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Chaffee, Custer, Fremont, Saguache	31 min
Jun 6, 2:48 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla and 14 more	24 hr
Jun 6, 2:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Conejos, Rio Grande	41 min
Jun 6, 2:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Custer, Saguache	31 min
Jun 6, 3:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	45 min
Jun 6, 3:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	37 min
Jun 6, 3:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo, Teller	30 min
Jun 6, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Pueblo, Saguache	16 min
Jun 6, 3:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	30 min
Jun 6, 3:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	41 min
Jun 6, 3:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	36 min
Jun 6, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Pueblo	32 min
Jun 6, 3:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	44 min
Jun 6, 4:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	44 min
Jun 6, 4:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	52 min
Jun 6, 4:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	34 min
Jun 6, 4:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo, Teller	26 min
Jun 6, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	11 min
Jun 6, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo	32 min
Jun 6, 4:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	25 min
Jun 6, 4:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	39 min
Jun 6, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	64 min
Jun 6, 5:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	45 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.