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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 29, 2021El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2021, 4:31 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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: May 29, 2021, 4:31 PM MDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2021, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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
May 29, 4:50 PM MDT	HAIL 1	2 S Peterson Afb, CO

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

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 29, 1:48 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 2325 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

530 
WUUS55 KPUB 292231
SVRPUB
COC041-292300-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0107.210529T2231Z-210529T2300Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
431 PM MDT Sat May 29 2021

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  West central El Paso County in east central Colorado...

* Until 500 PM MDT.

* At 431 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over southwestern
  Colorado Springs, moving southeast at 10 mph.

  HAZARD...Quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Public.

  IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

* Locations impacted include...
  Southern Colorado Springs, Fountain, Stratmoor, Fort Carson,
  Security, Peterson AFB, Security-Widefield and Cimarron Hills.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 900 PM MDT for east central
Colorado.

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3878 10488 3883 10484 3884 10467 3870 10468
TIME...MOT...LOC 2231Z 294DEG 10KT 3879 10481 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

Hodanish

1 follow-up statement

154 
WWUS55 KPUB 292256 RRA
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
456 PM MDT Sat May 29 2021

COC041-292306-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0107.000000T0000Z-210529T2300Z/
El Paso CO-
456 PM MDT Sat May 29 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 500 PM MDT...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 900 PM MDT for east central
Colorado.

LAT...LON 3878 10488 3883 10484 3884 10467 3870 10468
TIME...MOT...LOC 2256Z 294DEG 10KT 3876 10473 

$$

Hodanish

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 7:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	28 min
May 28, 7:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	40 min
May 28, 8:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	30 min
May 28, 8:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	24 min
May 28, 8:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	37 min
May 29, 1:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	22 min
May 29, 1:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	14 min
May 29, 1:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	23 min
May 29, 1:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	27 min
May 29, 2:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	41 min
May 29, 2:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	39 min
May 29, 2:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	52 min
May 29, 2:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	48 min
May 29, 2:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	31 min
May 29, 3:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	35 min
May 29, 3:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	49 min
May 29, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	35 min
May 29, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	50 min
May 29, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	44 min
May 29, 5:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	52 min
May 29, 5:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	28 min
May 29, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	36 min
May 29, 5:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	27 min
May 29, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	29 min
May 29, 5:53 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	86 min
May 29, 5:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	52 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.