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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 22, 20144 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2014, 1:47 PM MDT for 4 counties in 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: May 22, 2014, 1:47 PM MDT (19:47 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2014, 2:30 PM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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
May 22, 11:53 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 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.

951 
WUUS55 KPUB 221947
SVRPUB
COC055-071-089-101-222030-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0007.140522T1947Z-140522T2030Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
147 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  WESTERN OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  EAST CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 230 PM MDT

* AT 147 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 19 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF WALSENBURG...OR 37 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 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. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS...WESTERN OTERO...EAST CENTRAL HUERFANO
  AND SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3760 10443 3770 10462 3817 10428 3802 10400
TIME...MOT...LOC 1947Z 214DEG 30KT 3774 10445 

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

$$

PGW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 6:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	34 min
May 22, 12:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	12 min
May 22, 12:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	32 min
May 22, 3:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	25 min
May 22, 3:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	33 min
May 22, 4:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	26 min
May 22, 5:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	38 min
May 22, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	49 min
May 22, 5:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	51 min

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.