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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 30, 2005Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2005, 6:56 PM MDT for Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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: May 30, 2005, 6:56 PM MDT (00:56 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2005, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 30, 1:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 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.

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: 172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 310056
SVRPUB
COC009-071-310200-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0039.050531T0056Z-050531T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
656 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT.

* AT 651 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO
  GOLFBALL SIZE.  THIS STORM WAS CENTERED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KIM...
  OR 37 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  4 MILES SOUTH OF PRITCHETT BY 745 PM MDT

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3727 10335 3710 10328 3719 10275 3743 10287

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:12 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	65 min
May 30, 7:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	71 min
May 30, 7:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	34 min
May 30, 8:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	91 min
May 30, 9:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa	58 min
May 30, 10:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	90 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.