1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 21, 1:04 PM MST, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 204 PM MDT SAT JUL 21 2001 ...HOT SUNDAY...WITH A SLIGHT COOLING TREND BY EARLY IN THE WEEK...WITH AN INCREASING LIKLIHOOD OF COOLER AND WETTER PATTERN NEXT WEEKEND... CURRENTLY...SFC ANALYSIS INDICATES WEAK LOW OVER LHX. WEAK SFC BOUNDARY INDICATED ALONG PALMER DIVIDE...AS SEEN BY WIND OBS. DWPTS GENERALLY IN THE 40S TO MID 50S. VIS SAT PIX SHOWING A FEW STORMS ALONG E FACING MTNS...AND ALONG BOUNDARY ON DIVIDE. WATER VAPOR IMGY INDICATES A BAND OF HIGHER BISECTING THE STATE FROM SE TO NE. SHORT TERM...MESOETA AND WAT VAP SHOW THE BEST CHANCE OF POPS WILL BE OVER THE MTNS AND I-25 CORRIDOR. ANTICIPATE STORMS WILL CONTINUE MAINLY ALONG I-25 CORRIDOR AND OVER PALMER DIVIDE. MINIMAL TSTORM ACTIVITY EXPECTED OVER FAR E PLAINS. OVERALL ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN WIDELY SPACED...AND OVERALL PRECIP RATHER LIGHT AS PWATS MAXING OUT AT ABOUT 150% OF NORMAL...AND MESOETA QPF NOT ALL THAT SIGNIF. NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS I DO NOT SEE MUCH CHANGE. RIDGE TO REMAIN OVER TEH CENTRAL CONUS WITH WEAK TROUGH OVER W COAST. THIS WILL KEEP A WEAK SW FLOW OVER THE AREA ALOFT WITH DIURNAL UPSLOPE ACROSS THE AREA. BY MONDAY...BOTH AVN AND MRF SHOW A WEAK SURGE COMING DOWN ACROSS THE AREA. WILL TWEAK TEMPS DOWN A CAT AND INCREASE POPS TO 20-30% ON THIS DAY. IN THE LONGER RANGE...MRF HAS BEEN PRETTY PERSISTENT LAST FEW RUNS ON MOVING THE RIDGE TO THE GREAT BASIN. IF THIS VERIFIES...WILL PUT FCST AREA IN NW FLOW ALOFT AND ALLOW FOR MORE SIGNIF UPSLOPE TO DEVELOP. BASED ON LATEST MRF...FRONT SHOULD GET IN HERE NEXT SATURDAY. SINCE THIS IS STILL OVER 7 DAYS AWAY...WILL NOT MENTION YET IN EXTENDED. .PUB....NONE. HODANISH
COZ058>081-212000- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1138 AM MDT SAT JUL 21 2001 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO... ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT... MOISTURE OVER THE AREA WILL COMBINE WITH DAYTIME HEATING TO PRODUCE WIDELY SPACED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. THE BEST CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ALONG THE I-25 CORRIDOR...AND THE ADJACENT EASTERN MOUNTAINS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE GENERALLY EXPECTED BETWEEN 1 PM AND 9 PM...AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STRONGER STORMS MA7Y ALSO PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...AND HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER. HODANISH
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:28 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike burned up a transformer and caused 4 wells to stop working for 2 days in the La Junta area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, July 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5259658.