Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2021, 2:18 PM MDT for Crowley County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 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, 2:18 PM MDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2021, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Crowley County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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 2, 11:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
112
WUUS55 KPUB 022018
SVRPUB
COC025-101-022115-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0007.210502T2018Z-210502T2115Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
218 PM MDT Sun May 2 2021
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Crowley County in southeastern Colorado...
Northeastern Pueblo County in southeastern Colorado...
* Until 315 PM MDT.
* At 218 PM MDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 7 miles northeast of Pueblo Depot to 16 miles
southeast of Truckton, moving southeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to
mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include...
Ordway, Olney Springs, Sugar City and Crowley.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Wind damage with these storms will occur before any rain or
lightning. Do not wait for the sound of thunder before taking cover.
SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY inside a sturdy structure and stay away from
windows.
&&
LAT...LON 3829 10355 3817 10355 3817 10362 3811 10362
3811 10384 3813 10390 3812 10391 3812 10394
3815 10399 3815 10405 3812 10406 3812 10411
3840 10431 3845 10395 3852 10390 3852 10374
TIME...MOT...LOC 2018Z 319DEG 39KT 3840 10424 3853 10403
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...70MPH
$$
COHEN1 follow-up statement
810
WWUS55 KPUB 022051
SVSPUB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
251 PM MDT Sun May 2 2021
COC025-101-022115-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0007.000000T0000Z-210502T2115Z/
Crowley CO-Pueblo CO-
251 PM MDT Sun May 2 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM MDT
FOR CROWLEY AND NORTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES...
At 250 PM MDT, the leading edge of a line of severe wind gusts
associated with thunderstorm activity was located along a line
extending from 8 miles west of Fowler to Olney Springs to 6 miles
north of Ordway, moving southeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile
homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
Locations impacted include...
Ordway, Olney Springs, Sugar City and Crowley.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Wind damage with these storms will occur before any rain or
lightning. Do not wait for the sound of thunder before taking cover.
SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY inside a sturdy structure and stay away from
windows.
&&
LAT...LON 3829 10355 3817 10355 3817 10362 3811 10362
3811 10384 3813 10390 3812 10391 3812 10394
3815 10399 3815 10405 3812 10406 3812 10411
3840 10431 3845 10395 3852 10390 3852 10374
TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 335DEG 38KT 3813 10418 3819 10394 3831 10379
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...70MPH
$$
COHENThe 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, 2:39 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 | 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 |
| May 2, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 48 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.