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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 16, 2016Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2016, 12:38 PM MDT for Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 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 16, 2016, 12:38 PM MDT (18:38 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2016, 1:15 PM MDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 251 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: 513 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

405 
WUUS55 KPUB 161838
SVRPUB
COC009-071-161915-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0014.160516T1838Z-160516T1915Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1238 PM MDT MON MAY 16 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 115 PM MDT

* AT 1238 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF KIM...OR 38 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST 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. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS AND WEST CENTRAL BACA COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3702 10325 3717 10337 3743 10299 3721 10280
TIME...MOT...LOC 1838Z 235DEG 28KT 3714 10324 

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 15, 9:27 PM MDT	Winter Storm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	54 hr
May 15, 9:27 PM MDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 8 more	71 hr
May 16, 12:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	31 min
May 16, 1:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	33 min
May 16, 2:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	22 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.