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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 23, 2016Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2016, 6:38 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 20 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 23, 2016, 6:38 PM MDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2016, 6:58 PM MDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

531 
WUUS55 KPUB 240038
SVRPUB
COC061-240145-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0209.160724T0038Z-160724T0145Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
638 PM MDT SAT JUL 23 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT

* AT 638 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SHERIDAN
  LAKE...OR 26 MILES SOUTH OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10
  MPH.

  HAZARD...70 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT CONSIDERABLE 
           TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY TO MOBILE HOMES...
           ROOFS...AND OUTBUILDINGS. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SHERIDAN LAKE AND TOWNER. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. PEOPLE OUTSIDE
SHOULD MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE'S LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3836 10222 3844 10235 3862 10228 3861 10205
      3860 10204 3843 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 227DEG 8KT 3845 10224 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

LW

1 follow-up statement

424 
WWUS55 KPUB 240058
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
658 PM MDT SAT JUL 23 2016

COC061-240108-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0209.000000T0000Z-160724T0145Z/
KIOWA CO-
658 PM MDT SAT JUL 23 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN KIOWA 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.

LAT...LON 3836 10222 3844 10235 3862 10228 3861 10205
      3860 10204 3843 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0056Z 227DEG 8KT 3848 10220 

$$

LW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 7:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Otero	55 min
Jul 23, 8:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Otero	38 min
Jul 23, 8:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	40 min
Jul 24, 2:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	44 min
Jul 24, 2:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		43 min
Jul 24, 3:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		48 min
Jul 24, 3:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	41 min
Jul 24, 4:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	42 min
Jul 24, 4:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	47 min
Jul 24, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	15 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.