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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 2, 2021Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2021, 5:27 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 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 2, 2021, 5:27 PM MDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2021, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 1642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

877 
WUUS55 KPUB 022327
SVRPUB
COC009-030015-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0016.210502T2327Z-210503T0015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
527 PM MDT Sun May 2 2021

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southwestern Baca County in southeastern Colorado...

* Until 615 PM MDT.

* At 526 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 13 miles north of
  Kenton, or 27 miles southwest of Springfield, moving northeast at
  30 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
  southwestern Baca County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3702 10308 3710 10308 3735 10276 3717 10248
      3700 10287 3700 10307
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 240DEG 27KT 3709 10292 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$
MG/Hodanish

1 follow-up statement

849 
WWUS55 KPUB 022344
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
544 PM MDT Sun May 2 2021

COC009-030015-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0016.000000T0000Z-210503T0015Z/
Baca CO-
544 PM MDT Sun May 2 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY...

At 543 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 13 miles west of
Campo, or 20 miles southwest of Springfield, moving northeast at 15
mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to 
         roofs, siding, and trees.

This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
southwestern Baca County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3735 10276 3717 10248 3700 10287 3703 10299
      3713 10305
TIME...MOT...LOC 2343Z 229DEG 11KT 3716 10282 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$
MG/Hodanish

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 4:01 AM MDT	Winter Storm Warning	PUB	Custer, El Paso, Huerfano, Pueblo, Teller	40 hr
May 2, 1:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	34 min
May 2, 1:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	27 min
May 2, 1:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	25 min
May 2, 1:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	23 min
May 2, 2:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	44 min
May 2, 2:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	45 min
May 2, 2:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Pueblo	57 min
May 2, 2:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero, Pueblo	51 min
May 2, 2:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	38 min
May 2, 3:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	53 min
May 2, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Otero	32 min
May 2, 3:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	38 min
May 2, 3:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	72 min
May 2, 3:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers	52 min
May 2, 4:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	28 min
May 2, 4:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	32 min
May 2, 4:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	44 min
May 2, 4:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PUB	Bent, Prowers	35 min
May 2, 4:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	28 min
May 2, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	61 min
May 2, 4:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	39 min
May 2, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	45 min
May 2, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	34 min
May 2, 5:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	17 min
May 2, 5:24 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	51 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.