Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2012, 5:28 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 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
- Apr 26, 2012, 5:28 PM MDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2012, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 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 Dodge City radar (KDDC), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 2:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.
231
WUUS55 KPUB 262328
SVRPUB
COC009-099-270000-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0014.120426T2328Z-120427T0000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
528 PM MDT THU APR 26 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 600 PM MDT
* AT 524 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 NORTHEAST OF TWO BUTTES...OR 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE
SAUNDERS ELEVATOR...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME NORTHEASTERN BACA AND SOUTHEASTERN
PROWERS 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 3752 10218 3768 10228 3790 10205 3788 10203
3755 10203
TIME...MOT...LOC 2329Z 238DEG 22KT 3766 10214
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$2 follow-up statements
425
WWUS55 KPUB 262341
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
541 PM MDT THU APR 26 2012
COC009-099-270000-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0014.000000T0000Z-120427T0000Z/
BACA CO-PROWERS CO-
541 PM MDT THU APR 26 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
PROWERS AND NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM MDT...
AT 537 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES
NORTH OF THE SAUNDERS ELEVATOR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3756 10204 3758 10216 3773 10223 3790 10205
3788 10203
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 236DEG 17KT 3767 10208
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$287
WWUS55 KPUB 262355
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
555 PM MDT THU APR 26 2012
COC009-099-270005-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0014.000000T0000Z-120427T0000Z/
BACA CO-PROWERS CO-
555 PM MDT THU APR 26 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS AND
NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM MDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA...HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3756 10204 3758 10216 3773 10223 3790 10205
3788 10203
TIME...MOT...LOC 2355Z 236DEG 17KT 3771 10201
$$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, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 17 min |
| Apr 26, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 48 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.