Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2012, 8:37 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 min. 2 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 6, 2012, 8:37 PM MDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2012, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 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, 9:12 PM MDT | HAIL 0.88 | 4 W Segundo, CO | |
| Jun 6, 9:23 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 4 W Segundo, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 300 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
- 5123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
735 WUUS55 KPUB 070237 SVRPUB COC055-071-070330- /O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0060.120607T0237Z-120607T0330Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 837 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... WEST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 930 PM MDT * AT 834 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 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEGUNDO...OR 20 MILES WEST OF TRINIDAD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BONCARBO...GULNARE AND AGUILAR. 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 3750 10488 3741 10455 3710 10478 3717 10500 TIME...MOT...LOC 0237Z 208DEG 18KT 3719 10486 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
2 follow-up statements
067 WWUS55 KPUB 070253 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 853 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2012 COC055-071-070330- /O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0060.000000T0000Z-120607T0330Z/ HUERFANO CO-LAS ANIMAS CO- 853 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTIES UNTIL 930 PM MDT... AT 852 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GULNARE...OR 18 MILES WEST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BONCARBO...GULNARE AND AGUILAR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. && LAT...LON 3717 10499 3747 10480 3741 10455 3710 10478 TIME...MOT...LOC 0253Z 208DEG 18KT 3726 10481 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
689 WWUS55 KPUB 070309 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 909 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2012 COC055-071-070330- /O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0060.000000T0000Z-120607T0330Z/ HUERFANO CO-LAS ANIMAS CO- 909 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTIES UNTIL 930 PM MDT... AT 906 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 NEAR GULNARE...OR 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... AGUILAR. 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 3716 10497 3746 10478 3741 10455 3710 10478 TIME...MOT...LOC 0310Z 208DEG 18KT 3734 10476 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, 6:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 54 min |
| Jun 6, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 7:30 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Jun 6, 9:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 9:40 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 100 min |
| Jun 7, 3:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | El Paso | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 3:28 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 6 more | 23 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero, Pueblo | 54 min |
| Jun 7, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley | 30 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.