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Special Weather Statement, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

July 29, 2025Crowley County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this special weather statement at Jul 29, 2025, 4:21 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 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 29, 2025, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2025, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 40

County Crowley County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 368 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: 121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -251 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 10:13 AM MDT	Flood Watch	BOU	Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln	10 hr
Jul 29, 1:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BOU	Lincoln	49 min
Jul 29, 2:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BOU	Lincoln	42 min
Jul 29, 2:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BOU	Clear Creek	35 min
Jul 29, 3:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Elbert, Lincoln	43 min
Jul 29, 3:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BOU	Clear Creek	43 min
Jul 29, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Elbert, Lincoln	35 min
Jul 29, 4:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	BOU	Elbert, Lincoln	33 min
Jul 29, 5:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BOU	Phillips	34 min
Jul 29, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Phillips	34 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.