Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2011, 12:28 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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
- May 24, 2011, 12:28 PM MDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 1:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
377 WUUS55 KPUB 241828 SVRPUB COC055-101-241930- /O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0015.110524T1828Z-110524T1930Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1228 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... SOUTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 130 PM MDT * AT 1225 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF FARISITA...OR 31 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. AT 1225 PM MDT...QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED ALONG INTERSTATE 25 AT THE PUEBLO/HUERFANO COUNTY LINE. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY. 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 3771 10456 3762 10485 3794 10494 3795 10472 TIME...MOT...LOC 1827Z 356DEG 18KT 3785 10482 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$
1 follow-up statement
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WWUS55 KPUB 241851
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1251 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011
COC101-241900-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0015.000000T0000Z-110524T1930Z/
PUEBLO CO-
1251 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR PORTIONS OF FAR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3787 10492 3788 10481 3789 10468 3771 10456
3762 10485
TIME...MOT...LOC 1850Z 319DEG 23KT 3776 10470
$$
COC055-241930-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0015.000000T0000Z-110524T1930Z/
HUERFANO CO-
1251 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL
HUERFANO COUNTY UNTIL 130 PM MDT...
AT 1248 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF WALSENBURG...OR 35 MILES SOUTH OF
PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE
HAIL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE
TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
&&
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR PORTIONS OF FAR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3787 10492 3788 10481 3789 10468 3771 10456
3762 10485
TIME...MOT...LOC 1850Z 319DEG 23KT 3776 10470
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN
$$
STARKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 8:47 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 58 min |
| May 24, 9:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 52 min |
| May 24, 9:49 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero, Pueblo | 29 min |
| May 24, 11:08 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 24 min |
| May 24, 12:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 54 min |
| May 24, 1:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 28 min |
| May 24, 1:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 42 min |
| May 24, 1:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 13 min |
| May 24, 2:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 22 min |
| May 24, 2:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.