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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 21, 2021Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 21, 2021, 7:52 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 83 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 21, 2021, 7:52 PM MDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2021, 9:15 PM MDT
In force: 83 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 3010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

298 
WWUS85 KPUB 220152
SPSPUB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
752 PM MDT Fri May 21 2021
 
COZ095>097-220315-
Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County CO-Western Kiowa County CO-
Eastern Kiowa County CO-
752 PM MDT Fri May 21 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN KIOWA AND NORTH CENTRAL
BENT COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM MDT...

At 751 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near 
John Martin Reservoir, or 23 miles east of La Junta, moving north at 
50 mph.

Nickel size hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Las Animas, Eads, Haswell, Hasty, John Martin Reservoir and Fort
Lyon.

LAT...LON 3793 10302 3797 10324 3861 10315 3862 10275
      3861 10271
TIME...MOT...LOC 0151Z 194DEG 43KT 3803 10311 

$$

EP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 6:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	45 min
May 21, 6:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	36 min
May 21, 6:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	33 min
May 21, 6:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		53 min
May 21, 7:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	37 min
May 21, 7:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	48 min
May 21, 7:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	32 min
May 21, 9:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	50 min
May 22, 11:08 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	22 min
May 22, 11:33 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	27 min
May 22, 12:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	31 min
May 22, 12:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	44 min
May 22, 12:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	34 min
May 22, 12:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	46 min
May 22, 1:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	44 min
May 22, 1:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	26 min
May 22, 1:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	37 min
May 22, 1:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	44 min
May 22, 1:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	40 min
May 22, 1:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	39 min
May 22, 1:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	34 min
May 22, 2:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	31 min
May 22, 2:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	44 min
May 22, 2:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	43 min
May 22, 2:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	37 min
May 22, 2:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	29 min
May 22, 2:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	25 min
May 22, 2:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	38 min
May 22, 2:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	31 min
May 22, 2:49 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley	26 min
May 22, 2:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	46 min
May 22, 3:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	27 min
May 22, 3:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	24 min
May 22, 3:09 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley	21 min
May 22, 3:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	37 min
May 22, 3:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	36 min
May 22, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	46 min
May 22, 3:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	27 min
May 22, 3:48 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Pueblo	68 min
May 22, 4:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	15 min
May 22, 4:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	24 min
May 22, 4:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	25 min
May 22, 4:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	32 min
May 22, 5:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley, Otero	42 min
May 22, 5:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	36 min
May 22, 5:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	42 min
May 22, 5:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	39 min

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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.