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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Pueblo, CO

October 12, 2012Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 12, 2012, 9:19 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 26 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
Oct 12, 2012, 9:19 PM MDT (03:19 UTC)
Expired
Oct 12, 2012, 9:45 PM MDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 209 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2012-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2012-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 233 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
713 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
437 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.

836 
WUUS55 KPUB 130319
SVRPUB
COC009-130415-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0121.121013T0319Z-121013T0415Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
919 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 1015 PM MDT

* AT 918 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
  NORTHWEST OF CAMPO...OR 19 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SPRINGFIELD...CAMPO...VILAS...WALSH AND STONINGTON.

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 3700 10206 3700 10294 3742 10268 3764 10214
      3764 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0319Z 232DEG 50KT 3716 10269
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN

$$
2 follow-up statements
569 
WWUS55 KPUB 130330
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
930 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012

COC009-130415-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0121.000000T0000Z-121013T0415Z/
BACA CO-
930 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN BACA
COUNTY UNTIL 1015 PM MDT...

AT 929 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 NEAR
CAMPO...OR 18 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55
MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  VILAS...WALSH AND STONINGTON.

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 3700 10206 3701 10269 3745 10258 3764 10214
      3764 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0331Z 232DEG 50KT 3717 10255
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN

$$
947 
WWUS55 KPUB 130345
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
945 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012

COC009-130355-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0121.000000T0000Z-121013T0415Z/
BACA CO-
945 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN BACA 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 ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3700 10206 3701 10269 3745 10258 3764 10214
      3764 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0345Z 232DEG 50KT 3729 10236

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 8:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Las Animas66 min
Oct 12, 8:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Bent, Prowers63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012

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.