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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 17, 2008Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2008, 2:50 PM MDT for Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 41 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 17, 2008, 2:50 PM MDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2008, 3:31 PM MDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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 17, 12:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -496 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 172050
SVRPUB
COC009-071-172145-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0049.080617T2050Z-080617T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
250 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT...

* AT 247 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS
  IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES WEST OF
  CAMPO...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND WAS MOVING
  TOWARD THE EAST AT 19 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CAMPO.

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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3720 10322 3721 10236 3698 10241 3699 10305
      3698 10307
TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 269DEG 16KT 3709 10289

$$
JCERU SROSE

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 172103
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
303 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2008

COC071-172112-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-080617T2145Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
302 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR
SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...

HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3706 10304 3719 10309 3721 10236 3709 10239
      3708 10239 3698 10241 3699 10287
TIME...MOT...LOC 2102Z 269DEG 16KT 3709 10282

$$

COC009-172145-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-080617T2145Z/
BACA CO-
302 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY...

AT 301 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS CENTERED 14 MILES
WEST OF CAMPO...OR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND WAS MOVING
TOWARD THE EAST AT 18 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CAMPO.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3706 10304 3719 10309 3721 10236 3709 10239
      3708 10239 3698 10241 3699 10287
TIME...MOT...LOC 2102Z 269DEG 16KT 3709 10282

$$
JCERU SROSE

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 172123
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
323 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2008

COC009-172145-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-080617T2145Z/
BACA CO-
317 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM MDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTY...

AT 315 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 
CENTERED 13 MILES WEST OF CAMPO...OR 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
SPRINGFIELD...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 18 MPH.

THERE IS A SECOND STORM MOVING ALONG THE COLORADO STATE LINE...10 
MILES SOUTH OF CAMPO...THAT IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE 
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM IS MOVING 
EAST AT 18 MPH. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CAMPO.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3699 10280 3708 10289 3719 10293 3721 10236
      3703 10240 3703 10241 3702 10240 3698 10241
TIME...MOT...LOC 2117Z 269DEG 16KT 3712 10280

$$
JCERU SROSE

000 
WWUS55 KPUB 172131
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
331 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2008

COC009-172141-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-080617T2145Z/
BACA CO-
331 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL BACA COUNTY...

HAZARDOUS LIGHTNING MAY STILL BE IN THE AREA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3699 10280 3708 10289 3719 10293 3721 10236
      3703 10240 3703 10241 3702 10240 3698 10241
TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 269DEG 16KT 3712 10272

$$
JCERU

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	62 min
Jun 17, 4:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas	56 min
Jun 17, 4:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca	62 min
Jun 17, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	24 min

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.