Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2011, 1:03 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 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, 1:03 PM MDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 1:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 272 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.
271 WUUS55 KPUB 241903 SVRPUB COC055-071-241945- /O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0017.110524T1903Z-110524T1945Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 103 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 145 PM MDT * AT 102 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF WALSENBURG...OR 37 MILES NORTH OF TRINIDAD...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN HUERFANO AND NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES. 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 900 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF FAR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3763 10415 3728 10448 3769 10477 3782 10463 TIME...MOT...LOC 1903Z 310DEG 25KT 3769 10460 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$ STARK
The 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, 12:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 62 min |
| May 24, 1:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 28 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.