Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 2012, 9:22 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 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
- Sep 26, 2012, 9:22 PM MDT (03:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2012, 10:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 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), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 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 (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1309 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
601 WUUS55 KPUB 270322 SVRPUB COC061-270415- /O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0108.120927T0322Z-120927T0415Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 922 PM MDT WED SEP 26 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 1015 PM MDT * AT 920 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 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS...OR 41 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR... AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CHIVINGTON. 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 3840 10259 3862 10261 3862 10231 3853 10222 TIME...MOT...LOC 0322Z 331DEG 8KT 3866 10254 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
3 follow-up statements
306 WWUS55 KPUB 270338 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 938 PM MDT WED SEP 26 2012 COC061-270415- /O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0108.000000T0000Z-120927T0415Z/ KIOWA CO- 938 PM MDT WED SEP 26 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY UNTIL 1015 PM MDT... AT 934 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES NORTH OF CHIVINGTON...OR 39 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CHIVINGTON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. && LAT...LON 3851 10229 3840 10259 3862 10261 3862 10237 TIME...MOT...LOC 0338Z 331DEG 8KT 3863 10253 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
274 WWUS55 KPUB 270351 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 951 PM MDT WED SEP 26 2012 COC061-270415- /O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0108.000000T0000Z-120927T0415Z/ KIOWA CO- 951 PM MDT WED SEP 26 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY UNTIL 1015 PM MDT... AT 948 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 12 MILES NORTH OF CHIVINGTON...OR 37 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CHIVINGTON. 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 3862 10238 3851 10230 3840 10259 3862 10261 TIME...MOT...LOC 0351Z 331DEG 8KT 3860 10251 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
353 WWUS55 KPUB 270413 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1013 PM MDT WED SEP 26 2012 COC061-270423- /O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0108.000000T0000Z-120927T0415Z/ KIOWA CO- 1013 PM MDT WED SEP 26 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1015 PM MDT... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY...HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 3862 10238 3851 10230 3840 10259 3862 10261 TIME...MOT...LOC 0413Z 331DEG 8KT 3856 10248 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 27 min |
| Sep 27, 2:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | El Paso | 56 min |
| Sep 27, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 40 min |
| Sep 27, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo | 65 min |
| Sep 27, 4:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 56 min |
| Sep 27, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 52 min |
| Sep 27, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Kiowa, Otero | 66 min |
| Sep 27, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero, Pueblo | 62 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.