Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2021, 5:30 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 2, 2021, 5:30 PM MDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2021, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Huerfano County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 1152 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
366
WUUS55 KPUB 022330
SVRPUB
COC055-030000-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0201.210702T2330Z-210703T0000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
530 PM MDT Fri Jul 2 2021
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Huerfano County in southeastern Colorado...
* Until 600 PM MDT.
* At 529 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near La Veta, or
12 miles east of Spring Burn Scar south of Highway 160 in Huerfano
county, moving east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Walsenburg and La Veta.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3752 10506 3756 10505 3763 10495 3765 10478
3757 10464 3750 10479 3746 10497
TIME...MOT...LOC 2329Z 287DEG 9KT 3756 10492
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
KT1 follow-up statement
213
WWUS55 KPUB 022344
SVSPUB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
544 PM MDT Fri Jul 2 2021
COC055-030000-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0201.000000T0000Z-210703T0000Z/
Huerfano CO-
544 PM MDT Fri Jul 2 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MDT
FOR CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY...
At 544 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Walsenburg, or
17 miles east of Spring Burn Scar north of Highway 160, moving east
at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Walsenburg.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3754 10502 3759 10501 3763 10495 3765 10478
3757 10464 3752 10478 3749 10494
TIME...MOT...LOC 2344Z 269DEG 8KT 3758 10483
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
KTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 6:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 42 min |
| Jul 1, 6:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 6:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 6:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 44 min |
| Jul 1, 6:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 39 min |
| Jul 1, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 34 min |
| Jul 1, 7:08 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Otero | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 7:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 43 min |
| Jul 1, 8:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee, Fremont, Saguache | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 10:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee, El Paso, Fremont, Teller | 66 min |
| Jul 2, 12:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 3:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 3:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 43 min |
| Jul 2, 4:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 4:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Costilla, Huerfano | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 41 min |
| Jul 2, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Costilla | 18 min |
| Jul 2, 5:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 97 min |
| Jul 2, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 23 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.