Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2011, 2:21 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2011, 2:21 PM MDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2011, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:07 PM MDT | TORNADO | 18 Nw Kim, CO | TORNADO ON THE GROUND FOR ABOUT 1-3 MINUTES. CONE WITH DUST KICKING UP AT THE SURFACE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 12:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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
- 155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
505
WUUS55 KPUB 112021
SVRPUB
COC071-112115-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0031.110611T2021Z-110611T2115Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
221 PM MDT SAT JUN 11 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 315 PM MDT
* AT 219 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 21
MILES SOUTHEAST OF THATCHER...OR 38 MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...AND
MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS 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 3757 10379 3764 10338 3764 10318 3733 10323
3726 10376
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 252DEG 10KT 3744 10368
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$1 follow-up statement
502
WWUS55 KPUB 112042
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
242 PM MDT SAT JUN 11 2011
COC071-112115-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0031.000000T0000Z-110611T2115Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
242 PM MDT SAT JUN 11 2011
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL
LAS ANIMAS COUNTY UNTIL 315 PM MDT...
AT 237 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 21 MILES
NORTHWEST OF KIM...OR 37 MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3757 10377 3764 10338 3764 10318 3733 10323
3726 10373
TIME...MOT...LOC 2042Z 252DEG 10KT 3746 10361
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 12:52 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Custer and 9 more | 32 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 2:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 2:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Las Animas | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 16 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.