Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2012, 7:20 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 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 16, 2012, 7:20 PM MDT (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2012, 7:52 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2291 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
806
WUUS55 KPUB 170120
SVRPUB
COC009-170215-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0083.120617T0120Z-120617T0215Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
720 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 815 PM MDT
* AT 719 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
SPRINGFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SPRINGFIELD...VILAS AND TWO BUTTES.
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 3765 10283 3763 10227 3735 10245 3725 10285
3746 10285
TIME...MOT...LOC 0120Z 227DEG 17KT 3743 10266
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$3 follow-up statements
804
WWUS55 KPUB 170127
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
727 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 2012
COC009-170215-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0083.000000T0000Z-120617T0215Z/
BACA CO-
727 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
BACA COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM MDT...
AT 726 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
VILAS AND TWO BUTTES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
LAT...LON 3765 10283 3763 10227 3735 10245 3725 10285
3746 10285
TIME...MOT...LOC 0127Z 227DEG 17KT 3745 10263
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$616
WWUS55 KPUB 170144
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
744 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 2012
COC009-170215-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0083.000000T0000Z-120617T0215Z/
BACA CO-
744 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
BACA COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM MDT...
AT 740 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF VILAS...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF
SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TWO BUTTES.
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 3765 10283 3763 10227 3735 10245 3725 10285
3746 10285
TIME...MOT...LOC 0144Z 227DEG 17KT 3748 10246
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN
$$752
WWUS55 KPUB 170152
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
752 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 2012
COC009-170202-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0083.000000T0000Z-120617T0215Z/
BACA CO-
752 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR
PROPERTY...HOWEVER SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL
POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3765 10283 3763 10227 3735 10245 3725 10285
3746 10285
TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 227DEG 17KT 3751 10242
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 18 min |
| Jun 17, 3:45 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more | 11 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:53 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more | 30 hr |
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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.