Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2011, 9:43 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 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, 9:43 PM MDT (03:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2011, 10:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 1275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1346 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
597
WUUS55 KPUB 070343
SVRPUB
COC061-099-070445-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0074.110707T0343Z-110707T0445Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
943 PM MDT WED JUL 6 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 1045 PM MDT
* AT 939 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 NEAR
BRISTOL...OR 13 MILES EAST OF LAMAR...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHIVINGTON...BRISTOL...HARTMAN...BRANDON...HOLLY...SHERIDAN LAKE
AND 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 3861 10242 3861 10206 3801 10205 3796 10254
3829 10264
TIME...MOT...LOC 0344Z 243DEG 17KT 3816 10236
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$2 follow-up statements
914
WWUS55 KPUB 070359
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
959 PM MDT WED JUL 6 2011
COC061-099-070445-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0074.000000T0000Z-110707T0445Z/
PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO-
959 PM MDT WED JUL 6 2011
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN KIOWA
AND NORTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTIES UNTIL 1045 PM MDT...
AT 958 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES
NORTH OF BRISTOL...OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMAR...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HARTMAN...HOLLY...SHERIDAN LAKE AND TOWNER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
LAT...LON 3861 10235 3861 10206 3801 10205 3802 10245
3830 10250
TIME...MOT...LOC 0359Z 243DEG 17KT 3819 10228
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$580
WWUS55 KPUB 070420
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1020 PM MDT WED JUL 6 2011
COC061-099-070430-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0074.000000T0000Z-110707T0445Z/
PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO-
1020 PM MDT WED JUL 6 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN KIOWA AND NORTHEASTERN
PROWERS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL
POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3861 10235 3861 10206 3801 10205 3802 10245
3830 10250
TIME...MOT...LOC 0420Z 243DEG 17KT 3824 10217
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 8:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 2:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 34 min |
| Jul 7, 2:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 25 min |
| Jul 7, 2:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 89 min |
| Jul 7, 2:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 5:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 102 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.