Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2011, 7:42 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 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
- Aug 6, 2011, 7:42 PM MDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2011, 8:22 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
392
WUUS55 KPUB 070142
SVRPUB
COC061-070245-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0112.110807T0142Z-110807T0245Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
742 PM MDT SAT AUG 6 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 845 PM MDT
* AT 735 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
KIT CARSON...OR 45 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHIVINGTON...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.
&&
LAT...LON 3861 10211 3832 10247 3861 10292 3862 10279
3862 10222 3863 10220
TIME...MOT...LOC 0141Z 302DEG 19KT 3870 10275
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$3 follow-up statements
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WWUS55 KPUB 070157
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
757 PM MDT SAT AUG 6 2011
COC061-070245-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0112.000000T0000Z-110807T0245Z/
KIOWA CO-
757 PM MDT SAT AUG 6 2011
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN KIOWA
COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM MDT...
AT 752 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF KIT CARSON...OR 38 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHIVINGTON...BRANDON AND SHERIDAN LAKE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
LAT...LON 3861 10211 3832 10247 3832 10248 3862 10281
3862 10222 3863 10220
TIME...MOT...LOC 0157Z 304DEG 23KT 3861 10264
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$181
WWUS55 KPUB 070213
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
813 PM MDT SAT AUG 6 2011
COC061-070245-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0112.000000T0000Z-110807T0245Z/
KIOWA CO-
813 PM MDT SAT AUG 6 2011
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN KIOWA
COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM MDT...
AT 808 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF
60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTH OF CHIVINGTON...OR 36
MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHIVINGTON...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.
&&
LAT...LON 3834 10245 3861 10272 3862 10222 3863 10220
3861 10211
TIME...MOT...LOC 0212Z 304DEG 21KT 3859 10256
WIND...HAIL 60MPH <.50IN
$$830
WWUS55 KPUB 070222
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
822 PM MDT SAT AUG 6 2011
COC061-070233-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0112.000000T0000Z-110807T0245Z/
KIOWA CO-
822 PM MDT SAT AUG 6 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR
PROPERTY...HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3834 10245 3861 10272 3862 10222 3863 10220
3861 10211
TIME...MOT...LOC 0223Z 304DEG 21KT 3855 10249
$$Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2011Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2011
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.