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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Pueblo, CO

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

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2016, 12:44 PM MDT for Baca County, 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 16, 2016, 12:44 PM MDT (18:44 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2016, 1:15 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 250 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.

503 
WUUS55 KPUB 161844
SVRPUB
COC009-071-161915-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0015.160516T1844Z-160516T1915Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1244 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...
  SOUTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 115 PM MDT

* AT 1243 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTH OF
  KIM...OR 37 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
  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. 

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

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3714 10348 3734 10305 3707 10283 3700 10307
      3700 10337
TIME...MOT...LOC 1843Z 235DEG 39KT 3707 10328 

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

PGW

1 follow-up statement

217 
WWUS55 KPUB 161856
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1256 PM MDT MON MAY 16 2016

COC009-071-161915-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0015.000000T0000Z-160516T1915Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-BACA CO-
1256 PM MDT MON MAY 16 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS AND SOUTHWESTERN BACA COUNTIES...

AT 1256 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF KIM...OR 39 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
MPH.

HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

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

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

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3711 10344 3732 10303 3707 10283 3700 10307
      3700 10337
TIME...MOT...LOC 1856Z 239DEG 22KT 3707 10323 

HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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, 12:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	37 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.