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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 22, 2021El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2021, 2:14 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 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 22, 2021, 2:14 PM MDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2021, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 1528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

284 
WWUS85 KPUB 222014
SPSPUB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
214 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021
 
COZ084-085-222045-
Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below
7400 Ft CO-
Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Ft
CO-
214 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 245
PM MDT...

At 214 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Schriever AFB, or 20 miles east of Colorado Springs, moving north at
30 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Calhan, Schriever AFB, Ellicott and Peyton. 

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 800 PM MDT for east central
Colorado.

LAT...LON 3874 10427 3869 10455 3902 10463 3906 10428
TIME...MOT...LOC 2014Z 177DEG 25KT 3878 10446 

$$

KT

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, 7:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	83 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, 2:16 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.