Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2015, 6:01 PM MDT for Baca County, Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2015, 6:01 PM MDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2015, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 6:11 PM MDT | HAIL 0.75 | 7 Nw Springfield, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
093 WUUS55 KPUB 170003 SVRPUB COC009-011-099-170045- /O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0002.150417T0001Z-150417T0045Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 601 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO... NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO... SOUTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO... * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 601 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... AREAS NEAR AND NORTH SPRINGFIELD...AND TWO BUTTES RESERVOIR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 3736 10266 3747 10286 3781 10281 3767 10238 TIME...MOT...LOC 0001Z 204DEG 22KT 3747 10272 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ LW
3 follow-up statements
953 WWUS55 KPUB 170017 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 614 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015 COC009-011-099-170045- /O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-150417T0045Z/ PROWERS CO-BACA CO-BENT CO- 614 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS...NORTHWESTERN BACA AND SOUTHEASTERN BENT COUNTIES... AT 614 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TWO BUTTES RESERVOIR...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...PUBLIC. AT 611 PM MDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED PENNY SIZE HAIL...3/4 INCHES IN DIAMETER...7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... AREAS NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD...AND NEAR TWO BUTTES RESERVOIR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 3736 10266 3747 10286 3781 10281 3767 10238 TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 204DEG 22KT 3754 10268 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ LW
634 WWUS55 KPUB 170031 SVSPUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 630 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015 COC009-011-099-170045- /O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-150417T0045Z/ PROWERS CO-BACA CO-BENT CO- 630 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS...NORTH CENTRAL BACA AND EASTERN BENT COUNTIES... AT 630 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER TWO BUTTES RESERVOIR...OR 15 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TWO BUTTES RESERVOIR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 3754 10256 3760 10274 3781 10281 3767 10238 TIME...MOT...LOC 0030Z 204DEG 22KT 3763 10263 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ LW
087
WWUS55 KPUB 170050
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
648 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015
COC009-011-099-170058-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-150417T0045Z/
PROWERS CO-BACA CO-BENT CO-
648 PM MDT THU APR 16 2015
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS...NORTH
CENTRAL BACA AND EASTERN BENT COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND
MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 3754 10256 3760 10274 3781 10281 3767 10238
TIME...MOT...LOC 0045Z 204DEG 22KT 3763 10263
$$
LWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 8:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 8:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 29 min |
| Apr 16, 8:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 21 min |
| Apr 17, 4:00 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 11 hr |
| Apr 17, 1:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 27 min |
| Apr 17, 2:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 29 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.