Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2012, 4:42 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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 6, 2012, 4:42 PM MDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2012, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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 6, 4:45 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 14 N Trinchera, CO | DELAYED REPORT OF 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2428 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
856 WUUS55 KPUB 062242 SVRPUB COC071-062345- /O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0052.120606T2242Z-120606T2345Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 442 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 545 PM MDT * AT 438 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 11 MILES NORTH OF TRINCHERA...OR 28 MILES EAST OF TRINIDAD...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL 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 3747 10382 3717 10371 3711 10408 3732 10414 TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 261DEG 15KT 3721 10398 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
1 follow-up statement
899 WWUS55 KPUB 062257 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 457 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2012 COC071-062345- /O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-120606T2345Z/ LAS ANIMAS CO- 457 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM MDT... AT 452 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THATCHER...ANOTHER STORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF THATCHER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. && LAT...LON 3747 10382 3717 10371 3711 10408 3732 10414 TIME...MOT...LOC 2254Z 233DEG 22KT 3739 10388 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 34 min |
| Jun 6, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 61 min |
| Jun 6, 5:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 33 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.