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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 2, 2012Bent County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2012, 4:52 PM MDT for Bent County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 min. 3 reports 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: Jun 2, 2012, 4:52 PM MDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2012, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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
Jun 2, 5:05 PM MDT	HAIL 1	Eads, CO
Jun 2, 5:05 PM MDT	HAIL 1.75	3 Se Eads, CO
Jun 2, 5:08 PM MDT	TORNADO	3 S Eads, CO	RELAYED BY EM FROM DEPUTIES IN FIELD

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
Jun 2, 2:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

364 
WUUS55 KPUB 022252
SVRPUB
COC011-061-099-022345-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0048.120602T2252Z-120602T2345Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
452 PM MDT SAT JUN 2 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  NORTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT

* AT 450 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR WILEY...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  NEEGRONDA RESERVOIR...SWEETWATER RESERVOIR...QUEENS RESERVOIR...
  NEENOSHE RESERVOIR AND EADS.

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 3815 10268 3815 10299 3862 10291 3861 10249
TIME...MOT...LOC 2252Z 217DEG 14KT 3821 10273
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN

$$

1 follow-up statement

096 
WWUS55 KPUB 022308
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
508 PM MDT SAT JUN 2 2012

COC011-061-099-022345-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0048.000000T0000Z-120602T2345Z/
BENT CO-PROWERS CO-KIOWA CO-
508 PM MDT SAT JUN 2 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL
KIOWA...NORTHWESTERN PROWERS AND NORTHEASTERN BENT COUNTIES UNTIL 545
PM MDT...

AT 503 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL...
AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
EADS...OR 27 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EADS...AND MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN KIOWA 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 1000 PM MDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3815 10268 3815 10299 3862 10291 3861 10249
TIME...MOT...LOC 2307Z 184DEG 19KT 3848 10271
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 2:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	29 min
Jun 2, 2:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	27 min
Jun 2, 3:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	45 min
Jun 2, 3:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers	41 min
Jun 2, 4:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	38 min
Jun 2, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	27 min
Jun 2, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas	26 min
Jun 2, 4:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	66 min
Jun 2, 5:09 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	39 min
Jun 2, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	45 min
Jun 2, 5:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	34 min
Jun 2, 5:34 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	13 min
Jun 2, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	38 min

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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.