Alert archive / Colorado / Special Weather Statements in 2021
Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2021, 2:16 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports 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 22, 2021, 2:16 PM MDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2021, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Crowley County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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 22, 2:33 PM MDT | HAIL 1.25 | 10 N Ordway, CO | |
| May 22, 2:52 PM MDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 7 N Ordway, CO |
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 170 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
279 WWUS85 KPUB 222016 SPSPUB Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Pueblo CO 216 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021 COZ089-093-095-222100- Crowley County CO-Western Kiowa County CO- La Junta Vicinity/Otero County CO- 216 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN OTERO...WESTERN KIOWA AND CENTRAL CROWLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM MDT... At 216 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Sugar City, or 21 miles northwest of La Junta, moving north at 30 mph. Penny size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Ordway and Sugar City. LAT...LON 3852 10351 3817 10359 3818 10383 3852 10388 TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 178DEG 28KT 3826 10371 $$ kam
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, 2:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 31 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 |
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.