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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 26, 2006Fremont County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2006, 2:22 PM MDT for Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 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: Aug 26, 2006, 2:22 PM MDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2006, 3:05 PM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fremont County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 262022
SVRPUB
COC043-262115-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0113.060826T2022Z-060826T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
222 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO...

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT...

* AT 218 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF TEXAS CREEK...OR 54 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLORADO
  SPRINGS...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ROYAL GORGE.
  ROCKVALE.
  FLORENCE.
  CANON CITY.

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 3855 10570 3837 10572 3828 10510 3854 10506

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 262040
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
240 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006

COC043-262115-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-060826T2115Z/
FREMONT CO-
240 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM MDT
FOR CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY...

AT 239 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF TEXAS CREEK...OR 46 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
COLORADO SPRINGS...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WILLIAMSBURG.
  ROYAL GORGE.
  ROCKVALE.
  LINCOLN PARK.
  FLORENCE.
  COAL CREEK.
  CANON CITY.

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 3855 10570 3837 10572 3828 10510 3863 10508

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 262105
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
300 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006

COC043-262110-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-060826T2115Z/
FREMONT CO-
300 PM MDT SAT AUG 26 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CENTRAL
FREMONT COUNTY...

THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING
MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3855 10570 3837 10572 3828 10510 3863 10508

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 7:31 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	119 min
Aug 26, 2:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Conejos	38 min
Aug 26, 4:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	42 min
Aug 26, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	61 min
Aug 26, 4:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	54 min
Aug 26, 5:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	55 min
Aug 26, 5:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Pueblo	62 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.