Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2011, 4:56 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 16 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
- Jun 17, 2011, 4:56 PM MDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2011, 5:12 PM MDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 12:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
686
WUUS55 KPUB 172256
SVRPUB
COC041-180000-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0038.110617T2256Z-110618T0000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
456 PM MDT FRI JUN 17 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 600 PM MDT
* AT 455 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 6 MILES
NORTH OF RUSH...OR 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME EASTERN EL PASO 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 3887 10404 3884 10415 3893 10428 3913 10405
3912 10404
TIME...MOT...LOC 2256Z 225DEG 25KT 3893 10411
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$2 follow-up statements
040
WWUS55 KPUB 172306
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
506 PM MDT FRI JUN 17 2011
COC041-180000-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0038.000000T0000Z-110618T0000Z/
EL PASO CO-
506 PM MDT FRI JUN 17 2011
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN
EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM MDT...
AT 504 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES
NORTH OF RUSH...OR 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIMON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY...NORTH
OF RUSH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3887 10404 3885 10412 3895 10424 3913 10405
3912 10404
TIME...MOT...LOC 2305Z 225DEG 25KT 3897 10405
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$167
WWUS55 KPUB 172312
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
512 PM MDT FRI JUN 17 2011
COC041-172323-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0038.000000T0000Z-110618T0000Z/
EL PASO CO-
512 PM MDT FRI JUN 17 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA...HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3887 10404 3885 10412 3895 10424 3913 10405
3912 10404
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 225DEG 25KT 3901 10400
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2:41 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley and 12 more | 25 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:41 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 4 more | 30 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 57 min |
| Jun 17, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 50 min |
| Jun 17, 3:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 18 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.