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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 26, 2016El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2016, 2:27 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 10 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 26, 2016, 2:27 PM MDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2016, 2:37 PM MDT
In force: 10 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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 26, 12:04 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 1579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

043 
WUUS55 KPUB 262027
SVRPUB
COC041-262115-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0024.160526T2027Z-160526T2115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
227 PM MDT THU MAY 26 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT

* AT 227 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FALCON...OR
  17 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...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. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CALHAN...ELLICOTT...PEYTON...SCHRIEVER AFB AND FALCON. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR EAST CENTRAL
COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3874 10432 3877 10460 3913 10468 3913 10429
TIME...MOT...LOC 2027Z 258DEG 23KT 3892 10451 

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

KT

1 follow-up statement

726 
WWUS55 KPUB 262037
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
237 PM MDT THU MAY 26 2016

COC041-262047-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0024.000000T0000Z-160526T2115Z/
EL PASO CO-
237 PM MDT THU MAY 26 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL EL PASO 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 AND
HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR EAST CENTRAL
COLORADO.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR
NORTH CENTRAL PUEBLO AND SOUTHEAST EL PASO COUNTY UNTIL 315 PM.

LAT...LON 3874 10432 3877 10460 3913 10468 3913 10429
TIME...MOT...LOC 2036Z 258DEG 23KT 3893 10443 

$$

KT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 8:56 PM MDT	Winter Storm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	39 hr
May 26, 4:20 AM MDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 3 more	32 hr
May 26, 11:34 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	56 min
May 26, 12:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas	61 min
May 26, 1:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	24 min
May 26, 1:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	37 min
May 26, 1:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	48 min
May 26, 1:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	47 min
May 26, 1:51 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	114 min
May 26, 2:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	26 min
May 26, 2:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	53 min
May 26, 2:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Pueblo	52 min
May 26, 2:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	32 min
May 26, 2:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	58 min
May 26, 3:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	45 min
May 26, 4:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	57 min
May 26, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	31 min
May 26, 4:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	59 min
May 26, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	43 min
May 26, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	56 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.