Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2012, 5:54 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 11 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
- Aug 3, 2012, 5:54 PM MDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2012, 6:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 11 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 Dodge City radar (KDDC), 199 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1476 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
239
WUUS55 KPUB 032354
SVRPUB
COC009-040030-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0097.120803T2354Z-120804T0030Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
554 PM MDT FRI AUG 3 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 630 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 11
MILES SOUTHEAST OF STONINGTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME EASTERN BACA COUNTY.
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 3705 10211 3722 10220 3728 10204 3714 10203
3708 10203 3707 10203
TIME...MOT...LOC 2353Z 248DEG 18KT 3717 10205
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$1 follow-up statement
856
WWUS55 KPUB 040005
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
605 PM MDT FRI AUG 3 2012
COC009-040013-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0097.000000T0000Z-120804T0030Z/
BACA CO-
605 PM MDT FRI AUG 3 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL BACA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF BACA COUNTY
INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3705 10211 3722 10220 3728 10204 3714 10203
3708 10203 3707 10203
TIME...MOT...LOC 0003Z 248DEG 18KT 3719 10199
$$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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.