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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 7, 2015Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2015, 2:14 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 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 7, 2015, 2:14 PM MDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2015, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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 7, 2:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 286 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: 1621 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 3.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

327 
WUUS55 KPUB 072014
SVRPUB
COC071-072045-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0013.150507T2014Z-150507T2045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
214 PM MDT THU MAY 7 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 245 PM MDT

* AT 213 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES NORTH OF
  BRANSON...OR 33 MILES NORTH OF DES MOINES...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  KIM.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH A TORNADO IS NOT
IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...IF ONE IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A
PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3714 10384 3731 10391 3749 10339 3723 10329
TIME...MOT...LOC 2013Z 251DEG 34KT 3725 10379 

HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

PGW

1 follow-up statement

377 
WWUS55 KPUB 072029 RRA
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
229 PM MDT THU MAY 7 2015

COC071-072045-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-150507T2045Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
229 PM MDT THU MAY 7 2015

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...

AT 229 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES WEST OF
KIM...OR 36 MILES NORTH OF DES MOINES...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT DAMAGE 
         TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KIM.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH A TORNADO IS NOT
IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...IF ONE IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A
PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3715 10380 3732 10387 3749 10339 3723 10329
TIME...MOT...LOC 2029Z 253DEG 26KT 3727 10368 

HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

PGW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 6:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	90 min
May 7, 12:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	31 min
May 7, 12:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	37 min
May 7, 12:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	31 min
May 7, 1:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	36 min
May 7, 1:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	23 min
May 7, 1:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	27 min
May 7, 1:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Las Animas	37 min
May 7, 1:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	44 min
May 7, 2:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	114 min
May 7, 2:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	23 min
May 7, 2:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	32 min
May 7, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	44 min
May 7, 2:58 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
May 7, 3:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	34 min
May 7, 3:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Elbert	25 min
May 7, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	26 min
May 7, 3:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	37 min
May 7, 4:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	33 min
May 7, 4:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PUB	Baca	15 min
May 7, 5:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	37 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.