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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 27, 2024Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Apr 27, 2024, 2:00 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 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
Apr 27, 2024, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 2024, 2:30 PM MDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
40

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 201 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2024-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2024-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2987 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 Apr 26, 2:43 PM MDT, 23 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 2:43 PM MDT, 23 hours 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 7:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBKiowa36 min
Apr 27, 4:03 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBPueblo27 min
Apr 27, 4:43 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBCrowley32 min
Apr 27, 5:47 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBPueblo43 min
Apr 27, 7:26 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBPueblo34 min
Apr 27, 10:39 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBLas Animas36 min
Apr 27, 11:29 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBLas Animas31 min
Apr 27, 1:09 PM MDTRiver Flood WatchPUBPueblo7 hr
Apr 27, 1:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBaca32 min
Apr 27, 2:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBKiowa27 min
Apr 27, 4:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBaca31 min
Apr 27, 5:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBaca32 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.