Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2012, 5:45 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 15 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2012, 5:45 PM MDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2012, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
748
WUUS55 KPUB 152345
SVRPUB
COC041-160015-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0079.120615T2345Z-120616T0015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
545 PM MDT FRI JUN 15 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 615 PM MDT
* AT 542 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
TRUCKTON...OR 36 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RUSH.
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 3894 10405 3872 10404 3869 10409 3881 10421
3895 10405
TIME...MOT...LOC 2345Z 233DEG 11KT 3877 10413
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$2 follow-up statements
863 WWUS55 KPUB 152353 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 553 PM MDT FRI JUN 15 2012 COC041-160015- /O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0079.000000T0000Z-120616T0015Z/ EL PASO CO- 553 PM MDT FRI JUN 15 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM MDT... AT 551 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RUSH...OR 38 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RUSH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. && LAT...LON 3874 10409 3881 10414 3895 10405 3872 10404 TIME...MOT...LOC 2354Z 232DEG 13KT 3879 10409 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
071 WWUS55 KPUB 160000 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 600 PM MDT FRI JUN 15 2012 COC041-160010- /O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0079.000000T0000Z-120616T0015Z/ EL PASO CO- 600 PM MDT FRI JUN 15 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3874 10409 3881 10414 3895 10405 3872 10404 TIME...MOT...LOC 0000Z 232DEG 13KT 3880 10406 $$
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.