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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 167
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 21, 2014, 2:18 PM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 2014, 2:18 PM MDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2014, 6:47 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 3:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 40 min |
| May 21, 3:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 52 min |
| May 21, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 52 min |
| May 21, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 50 min |
| May 21, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 34 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 6:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 88 min |
| May 20, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 4 hr |
| May 20, 8:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more | 84 min |
| May 21, 12:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Elbert, Morgan and 1 more | 96 min |
| May 21, 12:34 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 5 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 1:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Las Animas and 4 more | 63 min |
| May 21, 1:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broomfield, Denver, Jefferson | 62 min |
| May 21, 4:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Washington, Yuma | 58 min |
| May 21, 4:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Washington, Yuma | 6 hr |
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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.