Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 2, 2007Custer County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2007, 4:17 PM MDT for Custer County, Colorado. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 2007, 4:17 PM MDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 2007, 4:58 PM MDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Custer County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 2, 4:28 PM MDTHAIL 0.884 Se Rosita, CO
Jul 2, 4:28 PM MDTHAIL 1Rosita, CO

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 308 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, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2007-07-02Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2007-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
5109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 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 022217
SVRPUB
COC027-022345-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0151.070702T2217Z-070702T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
417 PM MDT MON JUL 2 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT...

* AT 413 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS
  CENTERED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROSITA...OR 38 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  PUEBLO. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH
  CENTRAL CUSTER 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 3816 10523 3812 10534 3790 10529 3798 10521
      3801 10519 3801 10516 3807 10519

$$
3 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS55 KPUB 022231
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
430 PM MDT MON JUL 2 2007

COC027-022345-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0151.000000T0000Z-070702T2345Z/
CUSTER CO-
430 PM MDT MON JUL 2 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT
FOR CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY...

AT 425 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
STORM WAS CENTERED NEAR ROSITA...OR 38 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...
AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

THE SEVERE STORM WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL CUSTER 
COUNTY NEAR ROSITA...AND THE OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF ROSITA.  

AT 428 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW NICKEL SIZE HAIL 6 
MILES SOUTH OF ROSITA. 

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 3814 10528 3807 10539 3801 10535 3790 10529
      3798 10521 3801 10519 3801 10516 3807 10520

$$
000 
WWUS55 KPUB 022245
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
444 PM MDT MON JUL 2 2007

COC027-022345-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0151.000000T0000Z-070702T2345Z/
CUSTER CO-
444 PM MDT MON JUL 2 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT
FOR CENTRAL CUSTER COUNTY...

AT 442 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS 
STORM WAS CENTERED NEAR ROSITA...OR 41 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST AT 5 MPH.

THE SEVERE STORM WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL CUSTER
COUNTY.

AT 428 PM...A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW QUARTER SIZE HAIL 
IN ROSITA. 

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 3811 10535 3807 10542 3799 10539 3793 10535
      3801 10519 3806 10526

$$
000 
WWUS55 KPUB 022258
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
458 PM MDT MON JUL 2 2007

COC027-022308-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0151.000000T0000Z-070702T2345Z/
CUSTER CO-
458 PM MDT MON JUL 2 2007

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

THE STORM HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY.  HOWEVER...HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING 
MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3811 10535 3807 10542 3799 10539 3793 10535
      3801 10519 3806 10526

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBTeller49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.