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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 2, 2015Bent County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2015, 6:55 PM MDT for Bent County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 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: May 2, 2015, 6:55 PM MDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2015, 7:29 PM MDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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
May 2, 7:17 PM MDT	TSTM WND GST 60	4 E Wiley, CO	SPOTTER NETWORK REPORT.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

732 
WUUS55 KPUB 030055
SVRPUB
COC011-061-099-030145-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0009.150503T0055Z-150503T0145Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
655 PM MDT SAT MAY 2 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
  NORTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
  NORTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT

* AT 655 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MCCLAVE...OR
  14 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LAMAR...WILEY...MCCLAVE AND QUEENS RESERVOIR. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3787 10246 3811 10294 3829 10296 3828 10238
TIME...MOT...LOC 0055Z 278DEG 26KT 3822 10281 

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

HODANISH

3 follow-up statements

197 
WWUS55 KPUB 030107
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
707 PM MDT SAT MAY 2 2015

COC011-061-099-030145-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-150503T0145Z/
KIOWA CO-PROWERS CO-BENT CO-
707 PM MDT SAT MAY 2 2015

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM MDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KIOWA...NORTHWESTERN PROWERS AND NORTHEASTERN BENT
COUNTIES...

AT 706 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WILEY...OR 10
MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO 
         ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAMAR...WILEY AND MCCLAVE. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3787 10246 3807 10284 3828 10294 3828 10238
TIME...MOT...LOC 0106Z 282DEG 27KT 3821 10274 

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

HODANISH

462 
WWUS55 KPUB 030118
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
718 PM MDT SAT MAY 2 2015

COC011-061-099-030145-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-150503T0145Z/
KIOWA CO-PROWERS CO-BENT CO-
718 PM MDT SAT MAY 2 2015

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM MDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KIOWA...NORTHWESTERN PROWERS AND NORTHEASTERN BENT
COUNTIES...

AT 716 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WILEY...OR 8
MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

A WIND GUSTS TO 46 MPH WAS MEASURED AT THE LAMAR AIRPORT AT 708 PM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAMAR AND WILEY. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3805 10280 3815 10276 3827 10293 3828 10238
      3787 10246
TIME...MOT...LOC 0116Z 278DEG 26KT 3820 10264 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

HODANISH

455 
WWUS55 KPUB 030129
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
729 PM MDT SAT MAY 2 2015

COC011-061-099-030138-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-150503T0145Z/
KIOWA CO-PROWERS CO-BENT CO-
729 PM MDT SAT MAY 2 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KIOWA...
NORTHWESTERN PROWERS AND NORTHEASTERN BENT COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3805 10280 3815 10276 3827 10293 3828 10238
      3787 10246
TIME...MOT...LOC 0127Z 278DEG 26KT 3819 10252 

$$

HODANISH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 6:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	31 min
May 2, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	47 min
May 3, 12:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	30 min
May 3, 1:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	33 min
May 3, 2:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	31 min
May 3, 3:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	26 min
May 3, 4:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	21 min
May 3, 4:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	18 min
May 3, 5:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	32 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.