Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2021, 5:27 PM MDT for Elbert County, Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 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
- May 22, 2021, 5:27 PM MDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2021, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 12:20 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
349 WUUS55 KBOU 222327 SVRBOU COC039-073-230000- /O.NEW.KBOU.SV.W.0041.210522T2327Z-210523T0000Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Denver CO 527 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021 The National Weather Service in Denver Colorado has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southeastern Elbert County in east central Colorado... Southwestern Lincoln County in east central Colorado... * Until 600 PM MDT. * At 526 PM MDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles northeast of Kutch to 14 miles southwest of Forder, or along a line extending from 19 miles south of Limon to 42 miles northeast of Pueblo, moving north at 45 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Forder, Kutch and Punkin Center. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 800 PM MDT for east central Colorado. For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3910 10365 3852 10368 3853 10404 3910 10403 TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 172DEG 38KT 3898 10375 3855 10391 HAIL...0.75IN WIND...60MPH $$ RPK
1 follow-up statement
826
WWUS55 KBOU 222354
SVSBOU
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Denver CO
554 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021
COC039-073-230004-
/O.EXP.KBOU.SV.W.0041.000000T0000Z-210523T0000Z/
Elbert CO-Lincoln CO-
554 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN ELBERT AND
SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM MDT...
The storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe
limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. However small
hail, gusty winds and heavy rain are still possible with these
thunderstorms.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 800 PM MDT for east central
Colorado.
LAT...LON 3910 10365 3852 10368 3853 10404 3910 10403
TIME...MOT...LOC 2354Z 172DEG 38KT 3927 10380 3884 10396
$$
RPKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 7:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Morgan | 27 min |
| May 21, 10:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 48 min |
| May 22, 1:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Logan, Morgan, Washington | 49 min |
| May 22, 1:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 17 min |
| May 22, 1:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan | 15 min |
| May 22, 1:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 36 min |
| May 22, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas, Elbert | 28 min |
| May 22, 1:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Morgan, Washington | 33 min |
| May 22, 2:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe | 25 min |
| May 22, 2:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | Adams | 42 min |
| May 22, 2:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 17 min |
| May 22, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 44 min |
| May 22, 2:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Sedgwick | 48 min |
| May 22, 3:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan | 29 min |
| May 22, 3:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 29 min |
| May 22, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 35 min |
| May 22, 3:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 27 min |
| May 22, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Weld | 26 min |
| May 22, 4:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 32 min |
| May 22, 4:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 33 min |
| May 22, 5:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 29 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.