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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 30, 2006Fremont County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2006, 3:23 PM MDT for Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 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, 2006, 3:23 PM MDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2006, 4:02 PM MDT
In force
39 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), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 237 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2006-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2006-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 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 302123
SVRPUB
COC043-302230-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0013.060530T2123Z-060530T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
323 PM MDT TUE MAY 30 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT...

* AT 319 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 NEAR
  ROCKVALE...OR ABOUT 34 MILES WEST OF PUEBLO...AND MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FLORENCE

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 3839 10537 3827 10527 3827 10493 3852 10494

$$
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS55 KPUB 302147
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
347 PM MDT TUE MAY 30 2006

COC043-302230-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060530T2230Z/
FREMONT CO-
347 PM MDT TUE MAY 30 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN FREMONT COUNTY...

AT 343 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR PENROSE...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF FREMONT 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 3839 10537 3827 10527 3827 10493 3852 10494

$$
000 
WWUS55 KPUB 302202
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
401 PM MDT TUE MAY 30 2006

COC043-302211-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060530T2230Z/
FREMONT CO-
401 PM MDT TUE MAY 30 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR
SOUTHEASTERN FREMONT COUNTY...BECAUSE THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF SEVERE 
WEATHER HAS ENDED. THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH MAY PRODUCE HAZARDOUS 
LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME SMALL HAIL WERE NEAR 
PENROSE...AND WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY BY 430 PM 
MDT. 

LAT...LON 3839 10537 3827 10527 3827 10493 3852 10494

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 3:37 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers53 min
May 30, 4:31 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers26 min
May 30, 5:01 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa28 min
May 30, 4:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas55 min
May 30, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca53 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.