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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 7, 2012Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2012, 7:34 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 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: Aug 7, 2012, 7:34 PM MDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2012, 8:09 PM MDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

246 
WUUS55 KPUB 080134
SVRPUB
COC061-080230-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0100.120808T0134Z-120808T0230Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
734 PM MDT TUE AUG 7 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM MDT

* AT 733 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 8 MILES
  NORTH OF EADS...OR 37 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 25
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EADS...CHIVINGTON...BRANDON...SWEETWATER RESERVOIR...NEENOSHE
  RESERVOIR...NEEGRONDA RESERVOIR AND QUEENS RESERVOIR.

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 3828 10227 3829 10287 3862 10296 3863 10293
      3862 10241
TIME...MOT...LOC 0134Z 345DEG 24KT 3859 10279
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN

$$
SR

3 follow-up statements

548 
WWUS55 KPUB 080145
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
745 PM MDT TUE AUG 7 2012

COC061-080230-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0100.000000T0000Z-120808T0230Z/
KIOWA CO-
745 PM MDT TUE AUG 7 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL KIOWA
COUNTY UNTIL 830 PM MDT...

AT 737 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 6
MILES NORTH OF EADS...OR 35 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTH AT 30
MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EADS...CHIVINGTON...BRANDON...SWEETWATER RESERVOIR...NEENOSHE
  RESERVOIR...NEEGRONDA RESERVOIR AND QUEENS RESERVOIR.

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 3828 10227 3829 10287 3862 10292 3863 10293
      3862 10241
TIME...MOT...LOC 0145Z 345DEG 24KT 3852 10277
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN

$$
SR

970 
WWUS55 KPUB 080201
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
801 PM MDT TUE AUG 7 2012

COC061-080230-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0100.000000T0000Z-120808T0230Z/
KIOWA CO-
801 PM MDT TUE AUG 7 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL KIOWA
COUNTY UNTIL 830 PM MDT...

AT 757 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF
60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EADS...OR 30 MILES NORTH OF
LAMAR...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY
THESE DAMAGING WINDS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CHIVINGTON...BRANDON...SWEETWATER RESERVOIR...NEENOSHE RESERVOIR...
  NEEGRONDA RESERVOIR AND QUEENS RESERVOIR.

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 3828 10227 3829 10287 3861 10284 3863 10293
      3862 10248
TIME...MOT...LOC 0202Z 345DEG 24KT 3847 10270
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 0.75IN

$$

990 
WWUS55 KPUB 080209
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
809 PM MDT TUE AUG 7 2012

COC061-080219-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0100.000000T0000Z-120808T0230Z/
KIOWA CO-
809 PM MDT TUE AUG 7 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL KIOWA 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...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH
THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3828 10227 3829 10287 3861 10284 3863 10293
      3862 10248
TIME...MOT...LOC 0209Z 345DEG 24KT 3842 10268

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 6:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	24 min
Aug 7, 6:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	40 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.