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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 3, 2021El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2021, 2:07 PM MDT for El Paso 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: Aug 3, 2021, 2:07 PM MDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2021, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -226 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

414 
WWUS85 KPUB 032007
SPSPUB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
207 PM MDT Tue Aug 3 2021
 
COZ084-085-032045-
Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below
7400 Ft CO-
Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Ft
CO-
207 PM MDT Tue Aug 3 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL
245 PM MDT...

At 204 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Calhan, or 31 miles northeast of Colorado Springs, moving north at 5
mph.  Other storms were developing across northern El Paso county. 

Brief pea size hail, torrential rainfall and winds in excess of 40 
mph will be possible with these storms.  Localized flash flooding 
will be possible if storms persist or regenerate and move over the 
same locations. 

Locations impacted include...
Easter Colorado Springs, Monument, Calhan, Ramah, Black Forest, 
Ellicott, Peyton, Gleneagle, Falcon, Cimarron Hills and Peterson AFB.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3894 10406 3883 10437 3883 10477 3913 10487
      3913 10405
TIME...MOT...LOC 2004Z 171DEG 6KT 3903 10429 

$$

KT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 6:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Huerfano	2 hr
Aug 2, 7:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Huerfano	96 min
Aug 2, 9:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	56 min
Aug 3, 12:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	29 min
Aug 3, 12:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	34 min
Aug 3, 1:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	40 min
Aug 3, 1:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	27 min
Aug 3, 1:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	32 min
Aug 3, 2:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	33 min
Aug 3, 2:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	32 min
Aug 3, 2:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	45 min
Aug 3, 2:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	27 min
Aug 3, 2:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	38 min
Aug 3, 3:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	43 min
Aug 3, 3:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	37 min
Aug 3, 4:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	31 min
Aug 3, 4:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	42 min
Aug 3, 4:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	65 min
Aug 3, 4:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	32 min
Aug 3, 4:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Costilla	3 hr
Aug 3, 4:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	39 min
Aug 3, 4:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	33 min
Aug 3, 5:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	52 min
Aug 3, 5:13 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	3 hr
Aug 3, 5:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Teller	109 min
Aug 3, 5:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	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.