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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jun 12, 2021, 5:13 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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
- Jun 12, 2021, 5:13 PM MDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2021, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Otero County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 2724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
078 WWUS85 KPUB 122313 SPSPUB Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Pueblo CO 513 PM MDT Sat Jun 12 2021 COZ093-094-130000- Eastern Las Animas County CO-La Junta Vicinity/Otero County CO- 513 PM MDT Sat Jun 12 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL OTERO AND NORTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM MDT... At 512 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Thatcher, or 35 miles southwest of La Junta, moving northeast at 10 mph. Penny size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Timpas and Delhi. LAT...LON 3744 10390 3762 10403 3785 10378 3762 10347 TIME...MOT...LOC 2312Z 227DEG 9KT 3756 10391 $$ kam
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 5:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 5:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 38 min |
| Jun 12, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 47 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.