Alert archive / Colorado / Dust Storm Warnings in 2021
Dust Storm Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this dust storm warning at Apr 6, 2021, 2:13 PM MDT for Alamosa County, Rio Grande County, Saguache County, Colorado. It was in force for 92 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 6, 2021, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2021, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 272 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
- 2733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
427
WWUS55 KPUB 062018
DSWPUB
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Dust Storm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
213 PM MDT Tue Apr 6 2021
COC003-105-109-062145-
/O.NEW.KPUB.DS.W.0004.210406T2013Z-210406T2145Z/
Alamosa CO-Rio Grande CO-Saguache CO-
213 PM MDT Tue Apr 6 2021
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Dust Storm Warning for...
Northwestern Alamosa County in southeastern Colorado...
Northeastern Rio Grande County in south central Colorado...
Southeastern Saguache County in central Colorado...
* Until 345 PM MDT.
* At 213 PM MDT, a plume of dust was located between Hooper and
Moffat, or 27 miles north of Alamosa, blowing to the northeast.
HAZARD...Less than a quarter mile visibility with damaging wind in
excess of 60 mph.
SOURCE...Law enforcement and satellite imagery.
IMPACT...Dangerous life-threatening travel.
* Highway 17 between Hooper and Moffat will be affected.
Locations impacted include...
Crestone, Moffat, Hooper, Great Sand Dunes and Mosca.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Dust storms lead to dangerous driving conditions with visibility
reduced to near zero. If driving, avoid dust storms if possible. If
caught in one, pull off the road, turn off your lights and keep your
foot off the brake.
Motorists should not drive into a dust storm. PULL ASIDE STAY ALIVE!
&&
LAT...LON 3762 10594 3791 10619 3816 10577 3780 10547
TIME...MOT...LOC 2013Z 240DEG 49KT 3786 10585
$$
29The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 3:53 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Custer and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 4:21 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache | 10 hr |
| Apr 6, 9:18 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley and 11 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:45 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache | 29 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:39 PM MDT | Blowing Dust Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Rio Grande, Saguache | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:56 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | PUB | Bent, Las Animas, Otero | 64 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.