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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 12, 2012Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 12, 3:39 PM MDTHAIL 1.253 N Pritchett, CO
Jun 12, 3:47 PM MDTHAIL 26 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 12, 1:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2012-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2012-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 3:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas24 min
Jun 12, 3:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Las Animas45 min
Jun 12, 3:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca46 min
Jun 12, 3:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Las Animas31 min
Jun 12, 4:17 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPUBBaca3 hr
Jun 12, 4:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca31 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.