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Special Weather Statement, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this special weather statement at Jul 21, 2021, 1:21 PM MDT for Conejos County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 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 21, 2021, 1:21 PM MDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2021, 2:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
County Conejos County, CO
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 227 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 nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted.
613
WWUS85 KPUB 211921
SPSPUB
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
121 PM MDT Wed Jul 21 2021
COZ067-068-212015-
Upper Rio Grande Valley/Eastern San Juan Mountains Below 10000 Ft CO-
Eastern San Juan Mountains Above 10000 Ft CO-
121 PM MDT Wed Jul 21 2021
At 120 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 13
miles north of Chama, moving southwest at 5 mph. Around 1.5" of rain
fallen has been derived from radar. Enhanced flow in streams is
possible in the eastern San Juans in Conejos County.
Locations impacted include...
Cumbres Pass and Platoro.
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 3700 10648 3714 10659 3719 10660 3723 10668
3728 10668 3738 10666 3739 10642 3699 10637
TIME...MOT...LOC 1920Z 026DEG 5KT 3707 10651
$$
KTSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 7:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Chaffee | 12 min |
| Jul 21, 2:57 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont and 5 more | 19 hr |
| Jul 21, 1:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 2:02 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 2:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Alamosa | 35 min |
| Jul 21, 2:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Mineral | 56 min |
| Jul 21, 2:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 46 min |
| Jul 21, 3:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont | 2 hr |
| Jul 21, 3:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 35 min |
| Jul 21, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer | 33 min |
| Jul 21, 3:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 4:08 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 5:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 44 min |
| Jul 21, 5:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 47 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.