Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2021, 8:02 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 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 22, 2021, 8:02 PM MDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2021, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted.
411
WUUS55 KPUB 230202
SVRPUB
COC071-089-230230-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0082.210523T0202Z-210523T0230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
802 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Otero County in southeastern Colorado...
North central Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado...
* Until 830 PM MDT.
* At 802 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Delhi, or 32
miles southwest of La Junta, moving northeast at 45 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...
Delhi, Timpas and Thatcher.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3753 10420 3774 10408 3774 10406 3777 10407
3805 10390 3792 10360 3744 10401
TIME...MOT...LOC 0202Z 214DEG 37KT 3764 10397
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
EP1 follow-up statement
934
WWUS55 KPUB 230216
SVSPUB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
816 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021
COC071-089-230230-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0082.000000T0000Z-210523T0230Z/
Otero CO-Las Animas CO-
816 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN OTERO AND NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES...
At 816 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Timpas, or 23
miles southwest of La Junta, moving northeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Timpas.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3767 10411 3774 10408 3774 10406 3777 10407
3805 10390 3792 10360 3761 10387
TIME...MOT...LOC 0216Z 214DEG 37KT 3776 10387
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
EPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo | 63 min |
| May 22, 6:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 29 min |
| May 22, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 46 min |
| May 22, 7:30 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 91 min |
| May 22, 7:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 43 min |
| May 22, 7:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 43 min |
| May 22, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 26 min |
| May 22, 8:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 32 min |
| May 22, 8:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 46 min |
| May 22, 9:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 50 min |
| May 22, 10:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 27 min |
| May 23, 12:34 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 41 min |
| May 23, 12:38 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 37 min |
| May 23, 12:59 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Alamosa | 31 min |
| May 23, 3:17 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 28 min |
| May 23, 4:17 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 28 min |
| May 23, 5:02 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 28 min |
| May 23, 11:37 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 23 min |
| May 23, 12:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 28 min |
| May 23, 12:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 33 min |
| May 23, 12:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 34 min |
| May 23, 12:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 32 min |
| May 23, 12:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 37 min |
| May 23, 1:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 36 min |
| May 23, 5:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 22 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.