Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2011, 8:09 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 22 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, 8:09 PM MDT (02:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2011, 8:31 PM MDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
651 WUUS55 KPUB 140209 SVRPUB COC055-071-101-140300- /O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0097.110714T0209Z-110714T0300Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 809 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... SOUTH CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 900 PM MDT * AT 804 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF WALSENBURG...OR 28 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS...NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO AND SOUTHERN PUEBLO COUNTIES. 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 3785 10418 3763 10432 3782 10473 3798 10463 TIME...MOT...LOC 0209Z 296DEG 13KT 3787 10458 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$
1 follow-up statement
926 WWUS55 KPUB 140231 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 831 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011 COC055-071-101-140242- /O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0097.000000T0000Z-110714T0300Z/ HUERFANO CO-LAS ANIMAS CO-PUEBLO CO- 831 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL PUEBLO...EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. LAT...LON 3785 10418 3763 10432 3782 10473 3798 10463 TIME...MOT...LOC 0232Z 296DEG 13KT 3783 10449 $$
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, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 34 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, 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.