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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 23, 2008Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2008, 4:15 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min. 5 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: Apr 23, 2008, 4:15 PM MDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2008, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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
Apr 23, 4:36 PM MDT	HAIL 1	7 N Brandon, CO	STARTED 436 PM...
Apr 23, 4:44 PM MDT	HAIL 1.75	9 N Brandon, CO
Apr 23, 5:17 PM MDT	HAIL 0.75	Sheridan Lake, CO	ALSO MEASURED 62 MPH WIND GUSTS.
Apr 23, 5:21 PM MDT	HAIL 1	4 E Sheridan Lake, CO
Apr 23, 5:21 PM MDT	HAIL 1	Sheridan Lake, CO	STARTED 500 PM...

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

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 23, 1:25 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 2130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 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 232215
SVRPUB
COC061-232315-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0002.080423T2215Z-080423T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
415 PM MDT WED APR 23 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT...

* AT 414 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING
  WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BRANDON...
  OR ABOUT 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SHERIDAN LAKE.
  TOWNER.

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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3843 10261 3863 10258 3862 10217 3863 10216
      3863 10206 3861 10204 3838 10204 3833 10242
TIME...MOT...LOC 2216Z 232DEG 26KT 3846 10239

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 4:45 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, El Paso and 7 more	10 hr
Apr 23, 2:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	96 min
Apr 23, 3:10 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley and 11 more	30 hr
Apr 23, 4:20 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	55 min
Apr 23, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	39 min
Apr 23, 4:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	42 min
Apr 23, 5:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	61 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.