Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2009, 5:08 PM MDT for Crowley County, Otero County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 67 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
- Jun 11, 2009, 5:08 PM MDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2009, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Crowley County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 5:20 PM MDT | HAIL 0.75 | 5 Wnw Fowler, CO | |
| Jun 11, 5:30 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | Fowler, CO | |
| Jun 11, 6:15 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 1 W Rocky Ford, CO | |
| Jun 11, 6:20 PM MDT | HAIL 1.75 | Sugar City, CO | |
| Jun 11, 6:25 PM MDT | HAIL 0.88 | W Rocky Ford, CO |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 112308 SVRPUB COC025-089-101-120015- /O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0021.090611T2308Z-090612T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 508 PM MDT THU JUN 11 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... NORTHWESTERN OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 615 PM MDT... * AT 505 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF FOWLER...OR ABOUT 28 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PUEBLO...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FOWLER. OLNEY SPRINGS. MANZANOLA. CROWLEY. SUGAR CITY. ROCKY FORD. ORDWAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. && LAT...LON 3825 10363 3789 10365 3793 10436 3820 10436 TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 271DEG 14KT 3810 10415 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS55 KPUB 112327 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 527 PM MDT THU JUN 11 2009 COC025-089-101-120015- /O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-090612T0015Z/ OTERO CO-CROWLEY CO-PUEBLO CO- 527 PM MDT THU JUN 11 2009 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT FOR EAST CENTRAL PUEBLO...SOUTHERN CROWLEY AND NORTHWESTERN OTERO COUNTIES... AT 524 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE. THIS STORM WAS CENTERED NEAR FOWLER...OR 30 MILES WEST OF LA JUNTA...AND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FOWLER. OLNEY SPRINGS. MANZANOLA. CROWLEY. SUGAR CITY. ROCKY FORD. ORDWAY. AT 520 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW PENNY SIZE HAIL 5 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF FOWLER. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CROWLEY AND PUEBLO COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM MDT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF POSSIBLE...WITHOUT RISKING YOUR SAFETY...PROTECT PROPERTY BEFORE THE WEATHER HITS. GET IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...OR A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. && LAT...LON 3825 10363 3789 10365 3793 10436 3820 10436 TIME...MOT...LOC 2325Z 268DEG 15KT 3808 10408 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 5:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Pueblo | 87 min |
| Jun 11, 5:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero, Pueblo | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Kiowa | 62 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.