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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2010, 5:11 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 2010, 5:11 PM MDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2010, 5:57 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 2927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.2
- Supercell composite
- -1.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 21, 3:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 3:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 646 AM MDT MON JUN 21 2010 COZ058>089-093>099-221300- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- LEADVILLE VICINITY/LAKE COUNTY BELOW 11000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- WESTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY BETWEEN 9000 AND 11000 FT- CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY BELOW 9000 FT- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST CHAFFEE COUNTY ABOVE 9000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY WEST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY EAST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- LA GARITA MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY/EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS BELOW 10000 FT- EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FEET- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500 FT- WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET- WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000 FT- WET MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500 FT/PIKES PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT-PIKES PEAK ABOVE 11000 FT- CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT-PUEBLO AND VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- CROWLEY COUNTY-LA JUNTA VICINITY/OTERO COUNTY- EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY-WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY- EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY-LAS ANIMAS VICINITY/BENT COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY-SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- 646 AM MDT MON JUN 21 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HIGH FIRE DANGER EXISTS TODAY FOR ALL AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF THE I-25 CORRIDOR. A COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES...HOT TEMPERATURES...AND DRY FUELS WILL RESULT IN A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRIMARY STORM THREATS TODAY ARE EXPECTED TO BE LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY STRONG...WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS ON TUESDAY. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE HAIL NEARING ONE INCH IN DIAMETER...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THEN...THERE WILL BE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SUNDAY...WITH A FEW SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS. HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA...ESSENTIALLY THE MOUNTAINS AND HIGH VALLEYS...THROUGH THE WEEK. THIS WILL BE ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT CONCERNING THE MEDANO FIRE...WHERE WINDS ARE FORECAST TO REMAIN STRONG AND GUSTY THROUGH TUESDAY. WEAKENING WINDS ARE EXPECTED FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...THEN PERHAPS A RETURN TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ONCE AGAIN ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS. 50/27
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 5:06 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2:35 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more | 30 hr |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.