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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 2, 2021Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 2, 2021, 2:15 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 2, 2021, 2:15 PM MDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2021, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 2, 2:20 PM MDT	NON-TSTM WND DMG	2 Nw Pueblo West, CO	ASPEN TREE BLOWN DOWN BY OUTFLOW ENHANCED COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 1976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

048 
WWUS85 KPUB 022015
SPSPUB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
215 PM MDT Sun May 2 2021
 
COZ086-022100-
Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet CO-
215 PM MDT Sun May 2 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY UNTIL 300
PM MDT...

At 214 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking an outflow boundary moving 
across northern Pueblo County. Winds of 40 to 50 mph will be 
possible as this boundary moves across the Pueblo West and Pueblo 
areas between 2:15 PM and 2:45 PM. 

Wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this outflow boundary. 

Locations impacted include...
Pueblo, Boone, Pueblo Reservoir, Salt Creek, Blende, Avondale, Pueblo
West and Pueblo Depot.

LAT...LON 3847 10486 3828 10422 3812 10421 3812 10493
TIME...MOT...LOC 2014Z 013DEG 33KT 3835 10466 

$$

Hodanish

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 4:01 AM MDT	Winter Storm Warning	PUB	Custer, El Paso, Huerfano, Pueblo, Teller	40 hr
May 2, 1:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	34 min
May 2, 1:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	27 min
May 2, 1:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	25 min
May 2, 1:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	23 min
May 2, 2:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	44 min
May 2, 2:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Pueblo	57 min
May 2, 2:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero, Pueblo	51 min
May 2, 2:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	38 min
May 2, 3:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	53 min
May 2, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Otero	32 min
May 2, 3:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	38 min
May 2, 3:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	72 min
May 2, 3:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers	52 min
May 2, 4:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	28 min
May 2, 4:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	32 min
May 2, 4:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	44 min
May 2, 4:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PUB	Bent, Prowers	35 min
May 2, 4:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	28 min
May 2, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	61 min
May 2, 4:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	39 min
May 2, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	45 min
May 2, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	34 min
May 2, 5:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	17 min
May 2, 5:24 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	51 min
May 2, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	48 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.