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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 6, 2005Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2005, 8:04 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 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 6, 2005, 8:04 PM MDT (02:04 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2005, 8:41 PM MDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 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
May 6, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 251 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: 821 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 070205
SVRPUB
COC071-070300-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0009.050507T0204Z-050507T0300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
804 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 900 PM MDT.

* AT 804 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS CENTERED 13
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF KIM...OR 38 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND
  WAS MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.

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 3701 10333 3701 10309 3727 10309 3727 10333

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 070220
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
818 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2005

COC071-070300-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-050507T0300Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
818 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAS
ANIMAS COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM MDT...

AT 815 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...
AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS CENTERED OVER
EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.  AT 811 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC 
REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL 13 MILES TO THE SOUTHEAST OF KIM.  

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.

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 900 PM MDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3701 10333 3701 10309 3716 10308 3727 10309
      3727 10333

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 070241 RRA
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
841 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2005

COC071-070251-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-050507T0300Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
841 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
HAS BEEN CANCELED...

AT 837 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF
LIGHTNING...THE WEATHER NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE
OR PROPERTY IN THIS AREA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3701 10333 3701 10309 3716 10308 3727 10309
      3727 10333

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	46 min
May 6, 8:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	36 min
May 6, 9:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	36 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.