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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 6, 2021Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jul 6, 2021, 1:21 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 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 6, 2021, 1:21 PM MDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2021, 1:45 PM MDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 263 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: 375 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

As transmitted.

261 
WWUS85 KPUB 061921
SPSPUB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
121 PM MDT Tue Jul 6 2021
 
COZ094-099-061945-
Springfield Vicinity/Baca County CO-Eastern Las Animas County CO-
121 PM MDT Tue Jul 6 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL BACA AND EAST
CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM MDT...

At 121 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 11
miles west of Pritchett, or 25 miles west of Springfield, moving
southwest at 15 mph.

Penny size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of west central Baca
and east central Las Animas Counties.

LAT...LON 3741 10300 3724 10290 3709 10327 3735 10339
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 066DEG 12KT 3731 10306 

$$

kam

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 2:46 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 5 more	22 hr
Jul 6, 12:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	52 min
Jul 6, 12:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	36 min
Jul 6, 12:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	35 min
Jul 6, 1:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	34 min
Jul 6, 1:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	25 min
Jul 6, 1:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	26 min
Jul 6, 1:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	32 min
Jul 6, 1:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	31 min
Jul 6, 1:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	26 min
Jul 6, 1:50 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Fremont, Saguache	112 min
Jul 6, 1:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	51 min
Jul 6, 1:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	48 min
Jul 6, 2:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas	36 min
Jul 6, 2:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	34 min
Jul 6, 2:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	30 min
Jul 6, 2:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	28 min
Jul 6, 2:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	32 min
Jul 6, 2:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Teller	3 hr
Jul 6, 2:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	14 min
Jul 6, 2:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	33 min
Jul 6, 2:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	42 min
Jul 6, 2:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	26 min
Jul 6, 2:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	24 min
Jul 6, 3:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	28 min
Jul 6, 3:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	37 min
Jul 6, 3:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	45 min
Jul 6, 3:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	29 min
Jul 6, 3:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	46 min
Jul 6, 3:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	30 min
Jul 6, 3:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	37 min
Jul 6, 3:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Saguache	25 min
Jul 6, 3:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	32 min
Jul 6, 4:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	40 min
Jul 6, 4:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	51 min
Jul 6, 4:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	34 min
Jul 6, 4:20 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Huerfano	3 hr
Jul 6, 4:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	47 min
Jul 6, 4:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	46 min
Jul 6, 4:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Huerfano	118 min
Jul 6, 4:51 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 6, 4:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Costilla, Las Animas	12 min
Jul 6, 4:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	36 min
Jul 6, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	17 min
Jul 6, 5:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	40 min
Jul 6, 5:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	38 min
Jul 6, 5:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	35 min
Jul 6, 5:58 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	7 hr
Jul 6, 5:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	32 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.