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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 17, 2011Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2011, 8:25 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 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, 8:25 PM MDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2011, 8:50 PM MDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 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 02:25 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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

493 
WUUS55 KPUB 180225
SVRPUB
COC061-180330-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0045.110618T0225Z-110618T0330Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
825 PM MDT FRI JUN 17 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 930 PM MDT

* AT 823 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR SHERIDAN LAKE...OR 31 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMAR...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SHERIDAN LAKE.
  TOWNER.

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 3835 10243 3862 10243 3863 10209 3862 10205
      3861 10204 3855 10203 3834 10203 3827 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0226Z 261DEG 27KT 3847 10230
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN

$$

1 follow-up statement

788 
WWUS55 KPUB 180250
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
850 PM MDT FRI JUN 17 2011

COC061-180300-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0045.000000T0000Z-110618T0330Z/
KIOWA CO-
850 PM MDT FRI JUN 17 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN KIOWA 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 1000 PM MDT
FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3835 10243 3862 10243 3863 10209 3862 10205
      3861 10204 3855 10203 3834 10203 3827 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0250Z 261DEG 27KT 3850 10207

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 6:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	57 min
Jun 17, 7:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	53 min
Jun 17, 7:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	53 min
Jun 17, 7:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	17 min
Jun 17, 8:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	60 min
Jun 17, 8:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	49 min
Jun 17, 8:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	39 min
Jun 17, 9:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	65 min
Jun 18, 3:03 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley and 11 more	30 hr
Jun 18, 4:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	52 min
Jun 18, 5:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	50 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.