Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2011, 1:09 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 17 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
- Jul 6, 2011, 1:09 PM MDT (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2011, 1:26 PM MDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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 nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
547
WUUS55 KPUB 061909
SVRPUB
COC071-062000-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0072.110706T1909Z-110706T2000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
109 PM MDT WED JUL 6 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 200 PM MDT
* AT 108 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GULNARE...OR 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF
TRINIDAD...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BONCARBO...AGUILAR AND HOEHNE.
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 3719 10483 3738 10482 3739 10480 3739 10476
3743 10470 3745 10432 3718 10432
TIME...MOT...LOC 1909Z 271DEG 15KT 3733 10471
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN
$$1 follow-up statement
752
WWUS55 KPUB 061926
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
126 PM MDT WED JUL 6 2011
COC071-061936-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0072.000000T0000Z-110706T2000Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
126 PM MDT WED JUL 6 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
LAT...LON 3719 10483 3738 10482 3739 10480 3739 10476
3743 10470 3745 10432 3718 10432
TIME...MOT...LOC 1926Z 271DEG 15KT 3733 10462
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:43 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 4:07 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
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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.