Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2012, 3:30 PM MDT for Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 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, 3:30 PM MDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2012, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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, 4:25 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 3 S 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 2616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
966 WUUS55 KPUB 122130 SVRPUB COC009-071-122215- /O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0074.120612T2130Z-120612T2215Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 330 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 415 PM MDT * AT 328 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 16 MILES NORTH OF KIM...OR 37 MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PRITCHETT. 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 3763 10299 3733 10281 3733 10335 3757 10345 TIME...MOT...LOC 2130Z 252DEG 14KT 3748 10329 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ STARK
2 follow-up statements
997 WWUS55 KPUB 122148 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 348 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012 COC009-071-122215- /O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0074.000000T0000Z-120612T2215Z/ BACA CO-LAS ANIMAS CO- 348 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM MDT... AT 345 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIM...OR 34 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PRITCHETT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO. && A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3763 10299 3733 10281 3733 10335 3751 10343 TIME...MOT...LOC 2148Z 252DEG 14KT 3750 10321 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$ STARK
596 WWUS55 KPUB 122213 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 413 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012 COC009-071-122222- /O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0074.000000T0000Z-120612T2215Z/ BACA CO-LAS ANIMAS CO- 413 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS AND NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 415 PM MDT... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...HOWEVER SMALL HAIL IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL BACA COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO. LAT...LON 3763 10299 3733 10281 3733 10335 3751 10343 TIME...MOT...LOC 2212Z 252DEG 14KT 3738 10309 $$ STARK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 40 min |
| Jun 12, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 24 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.