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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 2, 2012Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2012, 5:15 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 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: Jun 2, 2012, 5:15 PM MDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2012, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 2005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 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.

398 
WUUS55 KPUB 022315
SVRPUB
COC099-030000-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0049.120602T2315Z-120603T0000Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 513 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  GRANADA...OR 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAMAR...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  15 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE DAMAGING WINDS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GRANADA...HOLLY...HARTMAN AND BRISTOL.

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 3776 10204 3773 10262 3808 10270 3826 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2315Z 230DEG 13KT 3792 10240
WIND...HAIL 70MPH 0.88IN

$$

2 follow-up statements

801 
WWUS55 KPUB 022326
SVSPUB

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

COC099-030000-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-120603T0000Z/
PROWERS CO-
526 PM MDT SAT JUN 2 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PROWERS COUNTY
UNTIL 600 PM MDT...

AT 522 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTH OF GRANADA...OR 17
MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAMAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. NICKEL SIZE
HAIL MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE DAMAGING WINDS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GRANADA...HOLLY...HARTMAN AND BRISTOL.

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 3776 10204 3775 10255 3811 10258 3826 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 230DEG 13KT 3795 10236
WIND...HAIL 70MPH 0.88IN

$$

550 
WWUS55 KPUB 022352
SVSPUB

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

COC099-030002-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-120603T0000Z/
PROWERS CO-
552 PM MDT SAT JUN 2 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PROWERS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
600 PM MDT...

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

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3776 10204 3775 10255 3811 10258 3826 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2352Z 230DEG 13KT 3801 10227

$$

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, 4:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	53 min
Jun 2, 5:09 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.