Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2013, 2:05 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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
- May 8, 2013, 2:05 PM MDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2013, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:06 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Se Chivington, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
903
WUUS55 KPUB 082005
SVRPUB
COC061-082045-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0002.130508T2005Z-130508T2045Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
205 PM MDT WED MAY 8 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 245 PM MDT
* AT 200 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
CHIVINGTON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES AND CROPS IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHIVINGTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3860 10269 3860 10251 3837 10244 3836 10259
TIME...MOT...LOC 2005Z 171DEG 11KT 3841 10255
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
PJC3 follow-up statements
306
WWUS55 KPUB 082011
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
211 PM MDT WED MAY 8 2013
COC061-082045-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130508T2045Z/
KIOWA CO-
211 PM MDT WED MAY 8 2013
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL KIOWA
COUNTY UNTIL 245 PM MDT...
AT 209 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHIVINGTON...
AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES AND CROPS IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHIVINGTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3841 10261 3860 10269 3860 10251 3840 10245
TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 171DEG 11KT 3843 10255
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
PJC698
WWUS55 KPUB 082018
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
218 PM MDT WED MAY 8 2013
COC061-082045-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130508T2045Z/
KIOWA CO-
218 PM MDT WED MAY 8 2013
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL KIOWA
COUNTY UNTIL 245 PM MDT...
AT 214 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHIVINGTON...
AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 1 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED
3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHIVINGTON AT 215 PM.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES AND CROPS IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3843 10262 3860 10269 3860 10251 3843 10246
TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 172DEG 15KT 3846 10255
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
PJC132 WWUS55 KPUB 082024 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 224 PM MDT WED MAY 8 2013 COC061-082033- /O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130508T2045Z/ KIOWA CO- 224 PM MDT WED MAY 8 2013 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. HOWEVER SMALL HAIL IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IN ADDITION...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP...AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT. LAT...LON 3843 10262 3860 10269 3860 10251 3843 10246 TIME...MOT...LOC 2023Z 172DEG 15KT 3849 10255 $$ PJC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 4:47 AM MDT | Winter Storm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Fremont, Teller | 37 hr |
| May 8, 4:47 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 4 more | 37 hr |
| May 8, 12:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 51 min |
| May 8, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 44 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.