Alert archive / Colorado / Snow Squall Warnings in 2021
Snow Squall Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this snow squall warning at Dec 15, 2021, 8:30 AM MST for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 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
- Dec 15, 2021, 8:30 AM MST (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 15, 2021, 9:15 AM MST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:33 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 2403 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
266
WWUS55 KPUB 151530
SQWPUB
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Snow Squall Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
830 AM MST Wed Dec 15 2021
COC041-151615-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SQ.W.0005.211215T1530Z-211215T1615Z/
El Paso CO-
830 AM MST Wed Dec 15 2021
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Snow Squall Warning for...
Northern El Paso County in east central Colorado...
* Until 915 AM MST.
* At 829 AM MST, a dangerous snow squall was located along a line
extending from 7 miles west of Elbert to near Black Forest, moving
east at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Whiteout conditions. Zero visibility in heavy snow and
blowing snow. Wind gusts greater than 55 mph.
SOURCE...Radar and webcams.
IMPACT...Dangerous life-threatening travel.
Locations impacted include...
Northern Colorado Springs, Monument, Air Force Academy, Palmer Lake,
Calhan, Ramah, Black Forest, Peyton, Gleneagle, Falcon, Cascade and
Cimarron Hills.
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 3888 10406 3889 10498 3913 10494 3913 10405
TIME...MOT...LOC 1529Z 261DEG 39KT 3921 10467 3897 10468
$$
RodriguezThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 6:02 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache | 43 min |
| Dec 15, 7:01 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 44 min |
| Dec 15, 7:11 AM MST | Dust Storm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 49 min |
| Dec 15, 7:22 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo | 23 min |
| Dec 15, 9:04 AM MST | Dust Storm Warning | PUB | Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo | 26 min |
| Dec 15, 9:27 AM MST | Dust Storm Warning | PUB | Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Otero, Pueblo | 63 min |
| Dec 15, 9:59 AM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | PUB | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 15, 11:34 AM MST | Blowing Dust Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 4 hr |
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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.