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Snow Squall Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this snow squall warning at May 11, 2021, 2:44 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 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 11, 2021, 2:44 PM MDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2021, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
117 WWUS55 KPUB 112045 SQWPUB BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Snow Squall Warning National Weather Service Pueblo CO 244 PM MDT Tue May 11 2021 COC041-112115- /O.NEW.KPUB.SQ.W.0002.210511T2044Z-210511T2115Z/ El Paso CO- 244 PM MDT Tue May 11 2021 The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a * Snow Squall Warning for... Northwestern El Paso County in east central Colorado... * Until 315 PM MDT. * At 244 PM MDT, a dangerous snow squall was located near Gleneagle, or 17 miles north of Colorado Springs, moving east at 20 mph. HAZARD...Poor visibility in heavy snow. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Dangerous life-threatening travel. * Web cameras were showing very heavy snow occurring across the entire length of the I-25 Gap project Locations impacted include... Monument, Air Force Academy, Palmer Lake and Gleneagle. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Consider avoiding or delaying travel until the snow squall passes your location. If you must travel, use extra caution and allow extra time. Rapid changes in visibility and slick road conditions may lead to accidents. && LAT...LON 3899 10501 3913 10500 3912 10447 3903 10456 TIME...MOT...LOC 2044Z 265DEG 19KT 3908 10476 $$ Hodanish
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2:39 PM MDT | Snow Squall Warning | PUB | El Paso | 36 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.