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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 28, 2021Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2021, 3:42 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 22 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 28, 2021, 3:42 PM MDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2021, 4:04 PM MDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 277 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: 1260 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

763 
WUUS55 KPUB 282142
SVRPUB
COC071-282215-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0095.210528T2142Z-210528T2215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
342 PM MDT Fri May 28 2021

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  East central Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado...

* Until 415 PM MDT.

* At 342 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 21 miles northwest
  of Kim, or 38 miles south of North La Junta, moving east at 10 mph.

  HAZARD...Half dollar size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
  east central Las Animas County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3735 10378 3753 10373 3752 10343 3726 10350
TIME...MOT...LOC 2142Z 281DEG 8KT 3743 10367 

HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

kam

2 follow-up statements

956 
WWUS55 KPUB 282159
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
359 PM MDT Fri May 28 2021

COC071-282215-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0095.000000T0000Z-210528T2215Z/
Las Animas CO-
359 PM MDT Fri May 28 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM MDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...

At 359 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 18 miles northwest
of Kim, or 38 miles south of North La Junta, moving east at 10 mph.

HAZARD...Quarter size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of east
central Las Animas County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3733 10372 3753 10365 3752 10343 3726 10350
TIME...MOT...LOC 2159Z 277DEG 9KT 3743 10360 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

kam

343 
WWUS55 KPUB 282204
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
404 PM MDT Fri May 28 2021

COC071-282214-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0095.000000T0000Z-210528T2215Z/
Las Animas CO-
404 PM MDT Fri May 28 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
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 3733 10372 3753 10365 3752 10343 3726 10350
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 281DEG 8KT 3743 10358 

$$

kam

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 2:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	34 min
May 28, 2:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	29 min
May 28, 3:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	41 min
May 28, 3:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	35 min
May 28, 4:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	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.