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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 30, 2026Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Aug 30, 2026, 6:39 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 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 30, 2026, 6:39 PM MDT (00:39 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2026, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 50

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 265 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: 858 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3253 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 30, 5:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 5:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 30, 11:42 AM MDT, 6 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 30, 4:38 PM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 4:52 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 5:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 6:36 PM MDT, 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 6:39 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
Aug 30, 6:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	25 min
Aug 30, 6:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Mineral	24 min
Aug 30, 6:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Mineral	31 min
Aug 30, 7:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	33 min
Aug 30, 7:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	52 min
Aug 30, 7:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	37 min
Aug 30, 8:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	49 min
Aug 30, 10:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	42 min
Aug 30, 10:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	36 min
Aug 30, 10:57 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	Chaffee, Lake, Saguache	22 hr
Aug 30, 11:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	44 min
Aug 30, 11:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	38 min
Aug 31, 12:00 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	45 min
Aug 31, 1:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	23 min
Aug 31, 1:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	36 min
Aug 31, 2:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	31 min
Aug 31, 2:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	31 min
Aug 31, 3:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	38 min
Aug 31, 3:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	32 min
Aug 31, 3:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	31 min
Aug 31, 3:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero	30 min
Aug 31, 3:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	31 min
Aug 31, 3:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Las Animas, Otero	33 min
Aug 31, 4:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	28 min
Aug 31, 4:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	23 min
Aug 31, 4:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	30 min
Aug 31, 4:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	24 min
Aug 31, 4:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Otero	33 min
Aug 31, 5:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	30 min
Aug 31, 5:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero	3 hr
Aug 31, 5:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	27 min
Aug 31, 5:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	38 min
Aug 31, 5:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	36 min
Aug 31, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas	35 min
Aug 31, 5:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	29 min
Aug 31, 5:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	36 min
Aug 31, 5:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	33 min
Aug 31, 5:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	32 min
Aug 31, 5:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers	54 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.