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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 9, 2021, 12:49 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 41 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 9, 2021, 12:49 PM MDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2021, 1:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 303 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
- 1141 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
693 WWUS85 KPUB 091849 SPSPUB Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Pueblo CO 1249 PM MDT Sun May 9 2021 COZ074-088-094-091930- Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Ft CO- Eastern Las Animas County CO- Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft CO- 1249 PM MDT Sun May 9 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY UNTIL 130 PM MDT... At 1248 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7 miles northeast of Sugarite Canyon State Park, or 13 miles southeast of Trinidad, moving east at 30 mph. Penny size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Branson and Trinchera. LAT...LON 3713 10441 3719 10381 3700 10380 3699 10440 TIME...MOT...LOC 1848Z 268DEG 25KT 3705 10432 $$ EP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 37 min |
| May 8, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 55 min |
| May 8, 6:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 46 min |
| May 8, 7:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 72 min |
| May 8, 7:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 42 min |
| May 8, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 61 min |
| May 8, 8:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 39 min |
| May 9, 1:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 52 min |
| May 9, 2:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 41 min |
| May 9, 2:46 PM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | PUB | El Paso, Fremont, Teller | 18 hr |
| May 9, 4:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 34 min |
| May 9, 4:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 37 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.