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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 5, 2008Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2008, 10:07 AM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 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: Jun 5, 2008, 10:07 AM MDT (16:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2008, 10:32 AM MDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:55 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 5, 4:33 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 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 051607
SVRPUB
COC061-051730-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0039.080605T1607Z-080605T1730Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1007 AM MDT THU JUN 5 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1130 AM MDT...

* AT 1004 AM 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 18 MILES WEST OF
  EADS...OR ABOUT 43 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD
  THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EADS.

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.

THIS STORM COULD INTENSIFY FURTHER AND PRODUCE SHORT-LIVED TORNADOES.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM MDT
THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3861 10235 3848 10236 3848 10316 3861 10317
TIME...MOT...LOC 1607Z 247DEG 26KT 3858 10307

$$

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 051613
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1013 AM MDT THU JUN 5 2008

COC061-051730-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0039.000000T0000Z-080605T1730Z/
KIOWA CO-
1012 AM MDT THU JUN 5 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 AM MDT
FOR NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTY...

AT 1008 AM 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 OVER 
NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 28 
MPH.

THE SEVERE STORM WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL
KIOWA 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.

THIS STORM COULD INTENSIFY FURTHER AND PRODUCE SHORT-LIVED TORNADOES.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM MDT
THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3862 10317 3862 10258 3861 10258 3861 10246
      3862 10245 3862 10235 3852 10236 3849 10237
      3849 10314
TIME...MOT...LOC 1612Z 252DEG 24KT 3858 10303

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 051624
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1024 AM MDT THU JUN 5 2008

COC061-051730-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0039.000000T0000Z-080605T1730Z/
KIOWA CO-
1024 AM MDT THU JUN 5 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 AM MDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY...

AT 1021 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF
60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS CENTERED OVER EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA
COUNTY...OR 41 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE
EAST AT 23 MPH.

THE SEVERE STORM WILL IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME NORTH
CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY.

THIS STORM COULD INTENSIFY FURTHER AND PRODUCE SHORT-LIVED TORNADOES.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM MDT
THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3862 10311 3862 10258 3861 10258 3861 10246
      3862 10245 3862 10235 3852 10236 3849 10237
      3851 10307
TIME...MOT...LOC 1624Z 256DEG 20KT 3861 10296

$$

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 051632
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1032 AM MDT THU JUN 5 2008

COC061-051642-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0039.000000T0000Z-080605T1730Z/
KIOWA CO-
1032 AM MDT THU JUN 5 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTH
CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY...

HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM MDT
THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3862 10311 3862 10258 3861 10258 3861 10246
      3862 10245 3862 10235 3852 10236 3849 10237
      3851 10307
TIME...MOT...LOC 1632Z 256DEG 20KT 3862 10290

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 3:48 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	57 min
Jun 5, 3:53 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	67 min
Jun 5, 5:02 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	58 min
Jun 5, 5:13 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	21 min
Jun 5, 6:39 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Pueblo	104 min
Jun 5, 8:11 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	34 min
Jun 5, 10:50 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	43 min
Jun 5, 11:18 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	57 min
Jun 5, 11:52 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	64 min
Jun 5, 12:20 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	36 min
Jun 5, 2:50 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache	15 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.