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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 21, 2008Las Animas County, Otero County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2008, 5:19 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Otero County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report 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: May 21, 2008, 5:19 PM MDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2008, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 21, 6:00 PM MDT	HAIL 0.75	4 Sw Swink, CO

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

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 848 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -262 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 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 212319
SVRPUB
COC071-089-101-220015-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0013.080521T2319Z-080522T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
519 PM MDT WED MAY 21 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT...

* AT 515 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS
  IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 16 MILES WEST OF
  DELHI...OR ABOUT 33 MILES NORTH OF TRINIDAD...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD
  THE NORTHEAST AT 38 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  DELHI.
  TIMPAS.

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 3778 10435 3819 10418 3788 10340 3744 10436
      3759 10455
TIME...MOT...LOC 2319Z 220DEG 33KT 3765 10428

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 212338
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
538 PM MDT WED MAY 21 2008

COC071-089-101-220015-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-080522T0015Z/
OTERO CO-LAS ANIMAS CO-PUEBLO CO-
538 PM MDT WED MAY 21 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO...NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND OTERO
COUNTIES...

AT 536 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS CENTERED 17 MILES
NORTHWEST OF DELHI...OR 34 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA...AND 
WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  TIMPAS.

LAT...LON 3778 10435 3819 10418 3788 10340 3744 10436
      3759 10455
TIME...MOT...LOC 2337Z 210DEG 50KT 3787 10415

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 212357
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
557 PM MDT WED MAY 21 2008

COC071-089-101-220015-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-080522T0015Z/
OTERO CO-LAS ANIMAS CO-PUEBLO CO-
557 PM MDT WED MAY 21 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO...NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND OTERO
COUNTIES...

AT 553 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED PRODUCING PENNY
SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS 
CENTERED 8 MILES NORTH OF TIMPAS...OR 10 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF LA 
JUNTA...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

LAT...LON 3778 10435 3819 10418 3788 10340 3744 10436
      3759 10455
TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 210DEG 50KT 3797 10368

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 220019
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
619 PM MDT THU MAY 21 2008

COC071-089-101-220026-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-080522T0015Z/
OTERO CO-LAS ANIMAS CO-PUEBLO CO-
619 PM MDT THU MAY 21 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO...NORTH
CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND OTERO COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 615 PM MDT...

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM MDT
FOR WESTERN KIOWA...NORTHEASTERN PUEBLO...NORTHWESTERN BENT...CROWLEY
AND NORTHERN OTERO COUNTIES...

LAT...LON 3778 10435 3819 10418 3788 10340 3744 10436
      3759 10455
TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 210DEG 50KT 3797 10368

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 20, 6:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	44 min
May 20, 6:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero	59 min
May 21, 4:58 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	PUB	Baca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano and 5 more	10 hr
May 21, 3:17 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano and 5 more	30 hr
May 21, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	43 min
May 21, 5:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Pueblo	83 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.