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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 18, 2013Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2013, 5:47 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 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 18, 2013, 5:47 PM MDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2013, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 18, 1:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1285 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

501 
WUUS55 KPUB 182347
SVRPUB
COC009-099-190030-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0049.130618T2347Z-130619T0030Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
547 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 542 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES EAST OF
  TWO BUTTES...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
           ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN BACA AND SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS
  COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3740 10204 3743 10233 3765 10239 3771 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2346Z 261DEG 13KT 3755 10224

HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

1 follow-up statement

344 
WWUS55 KPUB 182354
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
554 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2013

COC009-099-190030-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-130619T0030Z/
BACA CO-PROWERS CO-
554 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2013

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
PROWERS AND NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM MDT...

AT 552 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES EAST OF
TWO BUTTES...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
         ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN BACA AND SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS
  COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3746 10226 3765 10234 3771 10204 3740 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2354Z 261DEG 13KT 3755 10220

HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 6:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	40 min
Jun 17, 6:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	47 min
Jun 17, 6:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	46 min
Jun 17, 8:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Prowers	103 min
Jun 18, 3:58 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more	35 hr
Jun 18, 3:58 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more	40 hr
Jun 18, 1:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Las Animas	2 hr
Jun 18, 2:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Saguache	43 min
Jun 18, 2:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Saguache	40 min
Jun 18, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	47 min
Jun 18, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	46 min
Jun 18, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo	46 min
Jun 18, 4:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	41 min
Jun 18, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	48 min
Jun 18, 5:32 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	28 min
Jun 18, 5:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.