Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2016, 2:21 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 15, 2016, 2:21 PM MDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2016, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 2.5 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2:55 PM MDT | TORNADO | 4 E Sheridan Lake, CO | WINDOWS BLOWN OUT ON HOUSE. TRUCK WAS MOVED INTO A DITCH. |
| Jul 15, 2:59 PM MDT | HAIL 2 | 4 E Sheridan Lake, CO | . |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 15, 1:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
617
WUUS55 KPUB 152021
SVRPUB
COC061-152100-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0191.160715T2021Z-160715T2100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
221 PM MDT FRI JUL 15 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
* UNTIL 300 PM MDT
* AT 220 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING SOUTH AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...SPOTTER REPORTS.
IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES. EXPECT
CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY TO
MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS...AND OUTBUILDINGS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TOWNER AND OPEN COUNTRY OF EXTREME EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD
MOVE TO SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING... AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 3827 10226 3862 10229 3862 10205 3860 10204
3828 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 2020Z 355DEG 37KT 3868 10214
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...2.50IN
WIND...70MPH
$$
TLM1 follow-up statement
989
WWUS55 KPUB 152033
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
233 PM MDT FRI JUL 15 2016
COC061-152100-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0191.000000T0000Z-160715T2100Z/
KIOWA CO-
233 PM MDT FRI JUL 15 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM MDT
FOR EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY...
AT 232 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF
TOWNER...MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES. EXPECT
CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY TO
MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS...AND OUTBUILDINGS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TOWNER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD
MOVE TO A SHELTER...INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 3827 10226 3862 10229 3862 10205 3860 10204
3828 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 2032Z 355DEG 37KT 3856 10213
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...2.50IN
WIND...70MPH
$$
TLMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 6:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 6:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 6:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 7:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Elbert | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 7:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 95 min |
| Jul 14, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 8:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 84 min |
| Jul 14, 9:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 94 min |
| Jul 15, 12:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 28 min |
| Jul 15, 1:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 31 min |
| Jul 15, 2:09 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more | 31 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 34 min |
| Jul 15, 2:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 36 min |
| Jul 15, 2:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 24 min |
| Jul 15, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 3:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 27 min |
| Jul 15, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 32 min |
| Jul 15, 3:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 31 min |
| Jul 15, 4:47 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas and 3 more | 115 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.