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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 21, 2021Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2021, 5:30 PM MDT for Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 14 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 21, 2021, 5:30 PM MDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2021, 5:44 PM MDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bent County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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 218 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: 3153 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

295 
WUUS55 KPUB 212330
SVRPUB
COC011-099-220015-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0065.210521T2330Z-210522T0015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
530 PM MDT Fri May 21 2021

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  West central Prowers County in southeastern Colorado...
  Eastern Bent County in southeastern Colorado...

* Until 615 PM MDT.

* At 530 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 18 miles south of
  John Martin Reservoir, or 27 miles southwest of Lamar, moving north
  at 35 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, Hasty, McClave, John Martin Reservoir and Caddoa. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3772 10295 3778 10311 3825 10296 3814 10261
TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 197DEG 31KT 3782 10299 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

MG/EP

1 follow-up statement

071 
WWUS55 KPUB 212344
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
544 PM MDT Fri May 21 2021

COC011-099-212353-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0065.000000T0000Z-210522T0015Z/
Prowers CO-Bent CO-
544 PM MDT Fri May 21 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL PROWERS AND
EASTERN BENT COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
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 has been cancelled.  However small hail and
gusty winds are still possible with this thunderstorm.

LAT...LON 3772 10295 3778 10311 3825 10296 3814 10261
TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 197DEG 31KT 3794 10295 

$$

MG/EP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 11:18 AM MDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PUB	Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande	12 hr
May 21, 3:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	40 min
May 21, 4:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	31 min
May 21, 4:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	52 min
May 21, 4:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	41 min
May 21, 4:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	31 min
May 21, 5:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers	26 min
May 21, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa	18 min
May 21, 5:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	46 min
May 21, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	52 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.