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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 22, 2010Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2010, 2:24 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 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: Apr 22, 2010, 2:24 PM MDT (20:24 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2010, 2:59 PM MDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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
Apr 22, 12:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

389 
WUUS55 KPUB 222024
SVRPUB
COC061-099-222130-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0021.100422T2024Z-100422T2130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
224 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 222 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL. 
  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BRISTOL...OR 16 MILES EAST OF LAMAR...
  AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BRANDON AND SHERIDAN LAKE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3808 10244 3862 10257 3862 10250 3862 10225
      3810 10222
TIME...MOT...LOC 2024Z 173DEG 31KT 3818 10234
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.50IN

$$

2 follow-up statements

772 
WWUS55 KPUB 222040
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
240 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010

COC099-222050-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-100422T2130Z/
PROWERS CO-
240 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3826 10223 3827 10248 3862 10257 3862 10225
TIME...MOT...LOC 2040Z 178DEG 37KT 3842 10232

$$

COC061-222130-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-100422T2130Z/
KIOWA CO-
240 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN KIOWA
COUNTY UNTIL 330 PM MDT...

AT 236 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF SHERIDAN LAKE...OR 26 MILES
NORTHEAST OF LAMAR...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BRANDON AND SHERIDAN LAKE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH NOT IMMEDIATELY
LIKELY...IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3826 10223 3827 10248 3862 10257 3862 10225
TIME...MOT...LOC 2040Z 178DEG 37KT 3842 10232
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN

$$

553 
WWUS55 KPUB 222059
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
259 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010

COC061-222108-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-100422T2130Z/
KIOWA CO-
259 PM MDT THU APR 22 2010

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL 
KIOWA COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3826 10223 3827 10248 3862 10257 3862 10225
TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 178DEG 37KT 3862 10246

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 7:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero	60 min
Apr 21, 7:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	65 min
Apr 22, 12:19 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	21 min
Apr 22, 12:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Otero	64 min
Apr 22, 1:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	58 min
Apr 22, 1:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	65 min
Apr 22, 1:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	64 min
Apr 22, 2:02 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	25 min
Apr 22, 2:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	54 min
Apr 22, 2:09 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Otero	66 min
Apr 22, 2:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	66 min
Apr 22, 2:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	32 min
Apr 22, 3:17 PM MDT	Winter Storm Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 6 more	45 hr
Apr 22, 3:17 PM MDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PUB	Chaffee, El Paso, Fremont	39 hr
Apr 22, 3:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	21 min

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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.