Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2021, 6:43 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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 16, 2021, 6:43 PM MDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2021, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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WUUS55 KPUB 170043
SVRPUB
COC061-099-170145-
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
643 PM MDT Sun May 16 2021
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northern Prowers County in southeastern Colorado...
Southeastern Kiowa County in southeastern Colorado...
* Until 745 PM MDT.
* At 643 PM MDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 10 miles southeast of Sheridan Lake to near Queens
Reservoir, moving east 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.
* Locations impacted include...
Wiley, Neeoshe Reservoir and Queens Reservoir.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3818 10212 3812 10274 3834 10274 3844 10221
TIME...MOT...LOC 0043Z 290DEG 12KT 3834 10219 3824 10264
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
CohenThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 6:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 4 hr |
| May 16, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 35 min |
| May 16, 6:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 43 min |
| May 16, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 70 min |
| May 16, 6:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 45 min |
| May 16, 6:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 14 min |
| May 16, 6:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 43 min |
| May 16, 6:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 11 min |
| May 16, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 45 min |
| May 16, 7:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 28 min |
| May 16, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 36 min |
| May 16, 7:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 48 min |
| May 16, 7:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 29 min |
| May 16, 7:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 27 min |
| May 16, 7:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 26 min |
| May 16, 7:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 13 min |
| May 16, 7:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 48 min |
| May 17, 4:19 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 3 more | 18 hr |
| May 17, 11:50 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 25 min |
| May 17, 12:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 30 min |
| May 17, 12:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 34 min |
| May 17, 12:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 30 min |
| May 17, 12:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 28 min |
| May 17, 12:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 32 min |
| May 17, 1:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 26 min |
| May 17, 1:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 45 min |
| May 17, 1:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 28 min |
| May 17, 1:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 34 min |
| May 17, 1:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 32 min |
| May 17, 1:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 30 min |
| May 17, 1:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Alamosa | 51 min |
| May 17, 1:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 3 hr |
| May 17, 1:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 28 min |
| May 17, 1:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 32 min |
| May 17, 2:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 41 min |
| May 17, 2:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 37 min |
| May 17, 2:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 30 min |
| May 17, 2:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer, Pueblo | 3 hr |
| May 17, 2:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 36 min |
| May 17, 2:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Alamosa | 46 min |
| May 17, 2:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 47 min |
| May 17, 2:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 43 min |
| May 17, 2:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 61 min |
| May 17, 3:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 47 min |
| May 17, 3:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 44 min |
| May 17, 3:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont | 118 min |
| May 17, 3:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 54 min |
| May 17, 3:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 46 min |
| May 17, 4:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 15 min |
| May 17, 4:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 44 min |
| May 17, 4:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 43 min |
| May 17, 4:42 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 3 hr |
| May 17, 4:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 18 min |
| May 17, 4:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 46 min |
| May 17, 5:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 24 min |
| May 17, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 26 min |
| May 17, 5:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 108 min |
| May 17, 5:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 49 min |
| May 17, 5:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 45 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.