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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 15, 2005Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2005, 3:57 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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: Jun 15, 2005, 3:57 PM MDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2005, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Jun 15, 2:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -473 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 152158
SVRPUB
COC061-152300-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0071.050615T2157Z-050615T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
357 PM MDT WED JUN 15 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 500 PM MDT.

* AT 354 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS WIND FRONT WAS CENTERED 8 MILES NORTHWEST 
  OF ARLINGTON...OR 32 MILES NORTH OF LA JUNTA...AND WAS MOVING EAST 
  AT 40 MPH. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER HASWELL BY 410 PM MDT
  OVER NEE GRANDE RESERVOIR BY 445 PM MDT
  OVER NEE NOSHE RESERVOIR BY 450 PM MDT

IF POSSIBLE...WITHOUT RISKING YOUR SAFETY...PROTECT PROPERTY BEFORE
THE WEATHER HITS. GET IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...OR A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST
PROTECTION.

LAT...LON 3851 10349 3826 10348 3826 10266 3852 10267

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 152214
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
412 PM MDT WED JUN 15 2005

COC061-152300-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0071.000000T0000Z-050615T2300Z/
KIOWA CO-
412 PM MDT WED JUN 15 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY
UNTIL 500 PM MDT...

AT 407 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS CENTERED 6 MILES WEST OF HASWELL...
OR ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. 
HOWEVER...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS EXTEND ABOUT 3 MILES AHEAD OF THE 
STORM.  

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER HASWELL BY 410 PM MDT...
  OVER EADS BY 450 PM MDT.

IF POSSIBLE...WITHOUT RISKING YOUR SAFETY...PROTECT PROPERTY BEFORE
THE WEATHER HITS. GET IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...OR A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST
PROTECTION.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3851 10349 3826 10348 3826 10266 3852 10267

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 12:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	58 min
Jun 15, 1:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	28 min
Jun 15, 1:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Costilla	35 min
Jun 15, 1:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	58 min
Jun 15, 1:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	87 min
Jun 15, 2:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	53 min
Jun 15, 2:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	63 min
Jun 15, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	30 min
Jun 15, 3:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	52 min
Jun 15, 4:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	43 min
Jun 15, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	23 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.