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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 13, 2011Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2011, 6:16 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 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 13, 2011, 6:16 PM MDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2011, 6:50 PM MDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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 13, 5:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 856 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2153 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

710 
WUUS55 KPUB 140016
SVRPUB
COC101-140115-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0092.110714T0016Z-110714T0115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
616 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 612 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO RESERVOIR...OR 15 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PUEBLO AND BLENDE.

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 3837 10457 3820 10437 3799 10470 3812 10484
TIME...MOT...LOC 0016Z 218DEG 8KT 3809 10473
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN

$$

2 follow-up statements

952 
WWUS55 KPUB 140028
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
628 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011

COC101-140115-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0092.000000T0000Z-110714T0115Z/
PUEBLO CO-
628 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL PUEBLO
COUNTY UNTIL 715 PM MDT...

AT 625 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO RESERVOIR...OR 13 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PUEBLO AND BLENDE.

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 1100 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3837 10457 3820 10437 3799 10470 3812 10484
TIME...MOT...LOC 0028Z 230DEG 9KT 3812 10472
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN

$$

181 
WWUS55 KPUB 140050
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
650 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011

COC101-140100-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0092.000000T0000Z-110714T0115Z/
PUEBLO CO-
650 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL PUEBLO 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3837 10457 3820 10437 3799 10470 3812 10484
TIME...MOT...LOC 0050Z 230DEG 9KT 3816 10467

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 6:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont, Pueblo	26 min
Jul 13, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	61 min
Jul 13, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	55 min
Jul 13, 7:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	60 min
Jul 13, 7:10 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	64 min
Jul 13, 7:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Pueblo	2 hr
Jul 13, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	45 min
Jul 13, 7:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	67 min
Jul 13, 8:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo	22 min
Jul 13, 9:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 13, 9:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 13, 10:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 13, 10:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	32 min
Jul 13, 10:35 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 14, 2:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Las Animas	59 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.