Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2012, 4:26 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 17 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2012, 4:26 PM MDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2012, 4:43 PM MDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 4:29 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 10 N Springfield, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 2:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2951 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
400 WUUS55 KPUB 262226 SVRPUB COC009-099-262315- /O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0012.120426T2226Z-120426T2315Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 426 PM MDT THU APR 26 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... SOUTH CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 515 PM MDT * AT 422 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 11 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN BACA AND SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTIES. HIGHWAY 287 AROUND 10 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD. 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 10252 3770 10230 3745 10261 3756 10278 TIME...MOT...LOC 2225Z 220DEG 18KT 3758 10262 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
2 follow-up statements
116 WWUS55 KPUB 262234 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 434 PM MDT THU APR 26 2012 COC009-099-262315- /O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0012.000000T0000Z-120426T2315Z/ BACA CO-PROWERS CO- 434 PM MDT THU APR 26 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL PROWERS AND NORTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM MDT... AT 431 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF TWO BUTTES...OR 13 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IN ADDITION...AT 429 PM QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN 10 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME NORTHERN BACA AND SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTIES EAST OF HIGHWAY 287 AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 160. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. && A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3759 10272 3785 10252 3770 10230 3749 10257 TIME...MOT...LOC 2233Z 220DEG 18KT 3760 10255 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
268 WWUS55 KPUB 262243 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 443 PM MDT THU APR 26 2012 COC009-099-262253- /O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0012.000000T0000Z-120426T2315Z/ BACA CO-PROWERS CO- 443 PM MDT THU APR 26 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL PROWERS AND NORTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHEAST BACA AND SOUTHEAST PROWERS COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3759 10272 3785 10252 3770 10230 3749 10257 TIME...MOT...LOC 2243Z 220DEG 18KT 3764 10251 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 3:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 21 min |
| Apr 26, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 29 min |
| Apr 26, 3:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 20 min |
| Apr 26, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 32 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.