Alert archive / Colorado / Special Weather Statements in 2021
Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2021, 3:29 PM MDT for Alamosa 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
- Jul 5, 2021, 3:29 PM MDT (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2021, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Alamosa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 287 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
077 WWUS85 KPUB 052129 SPSPUB Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Pueblo CO 329 PM MDT Mon Jul 5 2021 COZ069-070-072-073-052200- Alamosa Vicinity/Central San Luis Valley Below 8500 Ft CO- Del Norte Vicinity/Northern San Luis Valley Below 8500 Ft CO- Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 8500 And 11000 Ft CO- Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains above 11000 Ft CO- 329 PM MDT Mon Jul 5 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN ALAMOSA AND SOUTHEASTERN SAGUACHE COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM MDT... At 329 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Great Sand Dunes, or 26 miles northeast of Alamosa, moving south at 10 mph. Penny size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Great Sand Dunes and San Luis Lake. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. && LAT...LON 3788 10577 3789 10555 3766 10549 3767 10580 TIME...MOT...LOC 2129Z 358DEG 8KT 3782 10566 $$ kam
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 6:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 26 min |
| Jul 4, 6:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 7:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 7:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 7:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 17 min |
| Jul 4, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 21 min |
| Jul 4, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 30 min |
| Jul 4, 8:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 37 min |
| Jul 4, 8:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 8:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 8:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 8:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Prowers | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 8:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Prowers | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 8:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Prowers | 31 min |
| Jul 4, 8:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer, Fremont | 85 min |
| Jul 4, 9:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 9:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 9:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 9:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | 31 min | |
| Jul 4, 9:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 2:39 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 4 more | 18 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 1:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 1:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Mineral | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 1:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Chaffee | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 2:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 23 min |
| Jul 5, 2:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 2:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Teller | 24 min |
| Jul 5, 2:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 2:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 3:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 36 min |
| Jul 5, 3:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Rio Grande | 31 min |
| Jul 5, 3:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 3:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 31 min |
| Jul 5, 3:53 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Custer | 56 min |
| Jul 5, 4:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Alamosa | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 4:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Alamosa | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 4:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 4:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer, Saguache | 26 min |
| Jul 5, 4:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer, Huerfano | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 4:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 5:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 31 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.