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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at May 31, 2021, 1:25 PM MDT for Costilla County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 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 31, 2021, 1:25 PM MDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2021, 2:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Costilla County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 285 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
- 900 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1226 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted.
224 WWUS85 KPUB 311925 SPSPUB Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Pueblo CO 125 PM MDT Mon May 31 2021 COZ071-074-075-312015- Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Ft CO- Southern San Luis Valley CO- Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Ft CO- 125 PM MDT Mon May 31 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN HUERFANO AND EAST CENTRAL COSTILLA COUNTIES UNTIL 215 PM MDT... At 124 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9 miles southeast of Fort Garland, or 10 miles south of Spring Burn Scar south of Highway 160 in Costilla county, moving east at 5 mph. Half inch hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Southern Spring Burn Scar south of Highway 160 in Costilla county. LAT...LON 3734 10529 3739 10533 3745 10521 3733 10512 TIME...MOT...LOC 1924Z 258DEG 6KT 3737 10528 $$ STEWARD/PETERSEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 6:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 42 min |
| May 30, 6:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 36 min |
| May 31, 3:55 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 3 more | 16 hr |
| May 31, 1:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Conejos | 49 min |
| May 31, 2:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Conejos | 45 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.