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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 2, 2021Crowley County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 2, 2021, 5:13 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 17 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 2, 2021, 5:13 PM MDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2021, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Crowley County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

166 
WWUS85 KPUB 022313
SPSPUB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
513 PM MDT Sun May 2 2021
 
COZ085-086-089-022330-
Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet CO-
Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below
7400 Ft CO-Crowley County CO-
513 PM MDT Sun May 2 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN EL PASO...
NORTHWESTERN CROWLEY AND NORTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM
MDT...

At 512 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 14
miles northeast of Pueblo Depot, or 27 miles northeast of Pueblo,
moving northeast at 45 mph.

Penny size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of southeastern El
Paso, northwestern Crowley and northeastern Pueblo Counties.

LAT...LON 3852 10405 3852 10384 3841 10379 3836 10428
      3857 10432 3870 10406
TIME...MOT...LOC 2312Z 241DEG 37KT 3849 10419 

$$

kam

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, 2:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	45 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, 5:24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.