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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 28, 2021El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2021, 8:21 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 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, 8:21 PM MDT (02:21 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2021, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 138 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3469 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

138 
WUUS55 KPUB 290221
SVRPUB
COC041-290245-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0096.210529T0221Z-210529T0245Z/

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

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  South central El Paso County in east central Colorado...

* Until 845 PM MDT.

* At 820 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Fountain, or
  13 miles southeast of Colorado Springs, moving east at 15 mph.

  HAZARD...Quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Off Duty National Weather Service meteorologist.

  IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

* Locations impacted include...
  Fountain and Security-Widefield. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3865 10473 3872 10470 3875 10446 3860 10455
TIME...MOT...LOC 0220Z 278DEG 14KT 3868 10466 

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

Hodanish

3 follow-up statements

340 
WWUS55 KPUB 290229
SVSPUB

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

COC041-290245-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0096.000000T0000Z-210529T0245Z/
El Paso CO-
829 PM MDT Fri May 28 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM MDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY...

At 828 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Fountain, or 15
miles southeast of Colorado Springs, moving east at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Quarter size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

Locations impacted include...
Fountain and Security-Widefield. 

This storm has a history of producing 1" hail.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3868 10470 3872 10467 3875 10446 3860 10455
TIME...MOT...LOC 0228Z 278DEG 14KT 3868 10462 

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

Hodanish

223 
WWUS55 KPUB 290238
SVSPUB

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

COC041-290245-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0096.000000T0000Z-210529T0245Z/
El Paso CO-
838 PM MDT Fri May 28 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM MDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY...

At 838 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Fountain, or 16
miles southeast of Colorado Springs, moving east at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Quarter size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

Locations impacted include...
Fountain and Security-Widefield. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3870 10468 3872 10467 3875 10446 3864 10453
TIME...MOT...LOC 0238Z 263DEG 13KT 3870 10458 

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

Hodanish

238 
WWUS55 KPUB 290244
SVSPUB

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

COC041-290252-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0096.000000T0000Z-210529T0245Z/
El Paso CO-
844 PM MDT Fri May 28 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 845 PM MDT...
                
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 will be allowed to expire.  However small 
hail up to one half inch in diameter is still likely with this 
thunderstorm.

LAT...LON 3870 10468 3872 10467 3875 10446 3864 10453
TIME...MOT...LOC 0242Z 278DEG 14KT 3870 10456 

$$

Hodanish

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 7:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	28 min
May 28, 7:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	40 min
May 28, 8:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	30 min
May 28, 8:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	37 min
May 29, 1:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	22 min
May 29, 1:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	14 min
May 29, 1:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	23 min
May 29, 1:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	27 min
May 29, 2:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	41 min
May 29, 2:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	39 min
May 29, 2:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	52 min
May 29, 2:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	48 min
May 29, 2:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	31 min
May 29, 3:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	35 min
May 29, 3:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	49 min
May 29, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	35 min
May 29, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	50 min
May 29, 4:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	29 min
May 29, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	44 min
May 29, 5:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	52 min
May 29, 5:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	28 min
May 29, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	36 min
May 29, 5:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	27 min
May 29, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	29 min
May 29, 5:53 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	86 min
May 29, 5:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	52 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.