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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 19, 2012Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2012, 2:16 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 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: May 19, 2012, 2:16 PM MDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2012, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 268 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: 216 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

122 
WUUS55 KPUB 192016
SVRPUB
COC071-192115-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0031.120519T2016Z-120519T2115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
216 PM MDT SAT MAY 19 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT

* AT 215 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 NORTHWEST OF KIM...OR 37 MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...AND MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN LAS ANIMAS 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.

&&

LAT...LON 3748 10333 3745 10336 3728 10344 3748 10384
      3764 10373
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 300DEG 28KT 3744 10348
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN

$$

1 follow-up statement

137 
WWUS55 KPUB 192045
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
245 PM MDT SAT MAY 19 2012

COC071-192055-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0031.000000T0000Z-120519T2115Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
245 PM MDT SAT MAY 19 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR 
PORTIONS OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY UNTIL 330 PM MDT.

LAT...LON 3748 10333 3745 10336 3728 10344 3748 10384
      3764 10373
TIME...MOT...LOC 2045Z 300DEG 28KT 3733 10323

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 9:21 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	54 min
May 19, 10:14 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	61 min
May 19, 12:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	63 min
May 19, 1:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	60 min
May 19, 1:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	25 min
May 19, 2:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	62 min
May 19, 2:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	53 min
May 19, 5:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Pueblo	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2012 Every 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.