Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2012, 3:05 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 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 12, 2012, 3:05 PM MDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2012, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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 12, 3:39 PM MDT | HAIL 1.25 | 3 N Pritchett, CO | |
| Jun 12, 3:47 PM MDT | HAIL 2 | 6 N Pritchett, CO |
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 12, 1:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 2269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
483 WUUS55 KPUB 122105 SVRPUB COC009-099-122145- /O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0072.120612T2105Z-120612T2145Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 305 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 345 PM MDT * AT 303 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 NORTH OF PRITCHETT...OR 14 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SPRINGFIELD AND VILAS. 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 3773 10253 3730 10234 3729 10286 3752 10300 TIME...MOT...LOC 2105Z 244DEG 13KT 3748 10284 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ STARK
1 follow-up statement
594 WWUS55 KPUB 122119 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 319 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012 COC009-099-122145- /O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0072.000000T0000Z-120612T2145Z/ BACA CO-PROWERS CO- 319 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS AND CENTRAL BACA COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM MDT... AT 317 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF PRITCHETT...OR 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SPRINGFIELD AND VILAS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. && A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3729 10281 3753 10295 3773 10253 3730 10234 TIME...MOT...LOC 2119Z 247DEG 7KT 3749 10282 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ STARK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 24 min |
| Jun 12, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 4:17 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PUB | Baca | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 31 min |
Nearby
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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.