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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 16, 2016Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2016, 2:08 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 22 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, 2:08 PM MDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2016, 2:30 PM MDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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
May 16, 1:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 264 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.

784 
WUUS55 KPUB 162008
SVRPUB
COC071-162045-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0017.160516T2008Z-160516T2045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
208 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...

* UNTIL 245 PM MDT

* AT 207 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF KIM...OR 31 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES...MOVING EAST 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. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  KIM.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3701 10357 3721 10367 3735 10329 3708 10322
TIME...MOT...LOC 2007Z 250DEG 9KT 3715 10355 

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

PGW

2 follow-up statements

245 
WWUS55 KPUB 162021
SVSPUB

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

COC071-162045-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0017.000000T0000Z-160516T2045Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
221 PM MDT MON MAY 16 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...

AT 221 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 16 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF KIM...OR 26 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
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...
KIM.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3701 10357 3721 10367 3735 10329 3708 10322
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 302DEG 13KT 3704 10350 

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

PGW

346 
WWUS55 KPUB 162030
SVSPUB

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

COC071-162039-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0017.000000T0000Z-160516T2045Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
230 PM MDT MON MAY 16 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
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.  HOWEVER SMALL HAIL IS
STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3701 10357 3721 10367 3735 10329 3708 10322
TIME...MOT...LOC 2027Z 250DEG 9KT 3705 10347 

$$

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, 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

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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.