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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 8, 2016Huerfano County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2016, 6:08 PM MDT for Huerfano 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: Jul 8, 2016, 6:08 PM MDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2016, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Huerfano County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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
Jul 8, 3:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 262 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: 45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -167 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

566 
WUUS55 KPUB 090008
SVRPUB
COC055-090045-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0166.160709T0008Z-160709T0045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
608 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT

* AT 607 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF
  WALSENBURG...OR 30 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10
  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. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3783 10479 3789 10465 3785 10452 3780 10441
      3775 10446 3765 10453 3756 10459
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 325DEG 11KT 3783 10467 

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

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2 follow-up statements

063 
WWUS55 KPUB 090024
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
624 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 2016

COC055-090045-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0166.000000T0000Z-160709T0045Z/
HUERFANO CO-
624 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM MDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY...

AT 624 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 16 MILES NORTHEAST
OF WALSENBURG...OR 34 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO...MOVING EAST AT 25 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. 

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3776 10470 3788 10462 3785 10452 3780 10441
      3775 10446 3765 10453 3763 10454
TIME...MOT...LOC 0024Z 288DEG 20KT 3778 10455 

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

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101 
WWUS55 KPUB 090036
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
636 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 2016

COC055-090046-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0166.000000T0000Z-160709T0045Z/
HUERFANO CO-
636 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 645 PM MDT...
                
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 WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3776 10470 3788 10462 3785 10452 3780 10441
      3775 10446 3765 10453 3763 10454
TIME...MOT...LOC 0035Z 325DEG 11KT 3778 10455 

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 6:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	24 min
Jul 8, 6:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	65 min
Jul 8, 6:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Huerfano, Pueblo	39 min
Jul 8, 6:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	29 min
Jul 8, 7:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Pueblo	28 min
Jul 8, 7:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	33 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.