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Dust Storm Warning 6, NWS Pueblo, CO

December 15, 2021Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this dust storm warning at Dec 15, 2021, 7:11 AM MST for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Dec 15, 2021, 7:11 AM MST (14:11 UTC)
Expired: Dec 15, 2021, 8:00 AM MST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:11 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 15, 7:15 AM MST	NON-TSTM WND GST 76	5 Ne Blende, CO
Dec 15, 7:24 AM MST	TSTM WND GST 65	5 Ne Blende, CO
Dec 15, 7:57 AM MST	NON-TSTM WND GST 59	1 Wnw Colorado City, CO	MESONET STATION CCYC2 COLORADO CITY.
Dec 15, 8:08 AM MST	NON-TSTM WND GST 61	3 Nnw Colorado City, CO	MESONET STATION DW2845 COLORADO CITY.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2403 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 85 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

875 
WWUS55 KPUB 151411
DSWPUB

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Dust Storm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
711 AM MST Wed Dec 15 2021

COC101-151500-
/O.NEW.KPUB.DS.W.0006.211215T1411Z-211215T1500Z/
Pueblo CO-
711 AM MST Wed Dec 15 2021

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

* Dust Storm Warning for...
  Pueblo County in southeastern Colorado...

* Until 800 AM MST.

* At 710 AM MST, a dust channel was over southwestern Pueblo, moving
  east at 65 mph.

  HAZARD...Less than a quarter mile visibility with damaging wind in 
           excess of 60 mph.

  SOURCE...National weather service personnel

  IMPACT...Dangerous life-threatening travel.

Winds were gusting to 66 mph at the Pueblo airport.

Locations impacted include...
Pueblo, Boone, Pueblo Reservoir, Salt Creek, Blende, Avondale, Pueblo
West, Pueblo Depot, Pinon and Colorado City.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3792 10490 3848 10490 3850 10411 3795 10410
TIME...MOT...LOC 1410Z 258DEG 57KT 3821 10463 

$$

Hodanish

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 15, 6:02 AM MST	Snow Squall Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache	43 min
Dec 15, 7:01 AM MST	Snow Squall Warning	PUB	Las Animas	44 min
Dec 15, 7:22 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	23 min
Dec 15, 8:30 AM MST	Snow Squall Warning	PUB	El Paso	45 min
Dec 15, 9:04 AM MST	Dust Storm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	26 min
Dec 15, 9:27 AM MST	Dust Storm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Otero, Pueblo	63 min
Dec 15, 9:59 AM MST	Blowing Dust Advisory	PUB	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 7 more	6 hr
Dec 15, 11:34 AM MST	Blowing Dust Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more	4 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.