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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 8, 2014El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2014, 4:25 PM MDT for El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 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: Jul 8, 2014, 4:25 PM MDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2014, 4:54 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties El Paso County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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 (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 62 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

692 
WUUS55 KPUB 082225
SVRPUB
COC041-119-082315-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0113.140708T2225Z-140708T2315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
425 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL TELLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO...
  SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 424 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR COLORADO
  SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...QUARTER 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...
  COLORADO SPRINGS...FOUNTAIN...MANITOU SPRINGS...STRATMOOR...
  PETERSON AFB...FORT CARSON...SECURITY...SECURITY-WIDEFIELD AND
  CIMARRON HILLS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3878 10500 3888 10495 3888 10460 3861 10472
TIME...MOT...LOC 2224Z 279DEG 13KT 3879 10489 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

KAM

3 follow-up statements

179 
WWUS55 KPUB 082237
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
437 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 2014

COC041-119-082315-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-140708T2315Z/
TELLER CO-EL PASO CO-
437 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 2014

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN TELLER AND SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTIES...

AT 437 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHWESTERN
COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

HAZARD...QUARTER 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...
COLORADO SPRINGS...FOUNTAIN...MANITOU SPRINGS...STRATMOOR...PETERSON
AFB...FORT CARSON...SECURITY...SECURITY-WIDEFIELD AND CIMARRON HILLS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3876 10496 3888 10490 3888 10460 3861 10472
TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 278DEG 12KT 3879 10485 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

KAM

103 
WWUS55 KPUB 082247
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
447 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 2014

COC041-119-082315-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-140708T2315Z/
TELLER CO-EL PASO CO-
447 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 2014

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN TELLER AND SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTIES...

AT 446 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FORT CARSON...
OR 8 MILES SOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

HAZARD...QUARTER 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...
SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO SPRINGS...FOUNTAIN...STRATMOOR...SECURITY...
SECURITY-WIDEFIELD AND FORT CARSON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3876 10496 3883 10489 3876 10465 3861 10472
TIME...MOT...LOC 2246Z 295DEG 13KT 3871 10484 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH

$$

KAM

948 
WWUS55 KPUB 082254
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
454 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 2014

COC041-119-082303-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-140708T2315Z/
TELLER CO-EL PASO CO-
454 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 2014

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN TELLER AND
SOUTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  HOWEVER SMALL HAIL AND
HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3876 10496 3883 10489 3876 10465 3861 10472
TIME...MOT...LOC 2252Z 279DEG 13KT 3871 10480 

$$

KAM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 2:33 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	27 min
Jul 8, 2:50 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		25 min
Jul 8, 3:13 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	17 min
Jul 8, 1:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Mineral	36 min
Jul 8, 3:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	34 min
Jul 8, 4:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	117 min
Jul 8, 5:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer, Fremont	38 min
Jul 8, 5:43 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Huerfano	3 hr
Jul 8, 5:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.