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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 22, 2014Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2014, 5:26 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 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, 5:26 PM MDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2014, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 104 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -299 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

251 
WUUS55 KPUB 222326
SVRPUB
COC009-099-230015-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0009.140522T2326Z-140523T0015Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 526 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TWO
  BUTTES...OR 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  25 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...
  TWO BUTTES AND TWO BUTTES RESERVOIR. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3741 10240 3759 10260 3789 10223 3770 10204
      3764 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 229DEG 20KT 3757 10246 

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

$$

PGW

3 follow-up statements

282 
WWUS55 KPUB 222344
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
544 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

COC009-099-230015-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-140523T0015Z/
PROWERS CO-BACA CO-
544 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS AND NORTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTIES...

AT 544 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF
TWO BUTTES...OR 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 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...
TWO BUTTES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3752 10237 3766 10251 3789 10223 3770 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2344Z 227DEG 27KT 3768 10238 

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

$$

PGW

440 
WWUS55 KPUB 230006
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
606 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

COC009-099-230015-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-140523T0015Z/
PROWERS CO-BACA CO-
606 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS AND NORTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTIES...

AT 605 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST
OF TWO BUTTES...OR 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE SAUNDERS ELEVA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 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...
TWO BUTTES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3752 10237 3766 10251 3789 10223 3770 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0005Z 229DEG 20KT 3776 10226 

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

$$

LW

107 
WWUS55 KPUB 230016
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
616 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

COC009-099-230025-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-140523T0015Z/
PROWERS CO-BACA CO-
616 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS AND NORTH
CENTRAL BACA COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE 
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR 
PROPERTY. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3752 10237 3766 10251 3789 10223 3770 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 229DEG 20KT 3776 10226 

$$

LW

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, 1:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	43 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, 5:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	51 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.