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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 30, 2016Crowley County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2016, 4:17 PM MDT for Crowley County, Colorado. It was in force for 23 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 30, 2016, 4:17 PM MDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2016, 4:40 PM MDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Crowley County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 820 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -312 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

215 
WUUS55 KPUB 302217
SVRPUB
COC025-302300-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0249.160730T2217Z-160730T2300Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
417 PM MDT SAT JUL 30 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 500 PM MDT

* AT 417 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FORDER...OR 39 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA JUNTA...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...
  ORDWAY AND SUGAR CITY. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

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 3851 10351 3812 10371 3843 10404 3852 10396
      3852 10361
TIME...MOT...LOC 2217Z 311DEG 12KT 3848 10391 

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

KAM

2 follow-up statements

991 
WWUS55 KPUB 302229
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
429 PM MDT SAT JUL 30 2016

COC025-302300-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0249.000000T0000Z-160730T2300Z/
CROWLEY CO-
429 PM MDT SAT JUL 30 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM MDT
FOR CENTRAL CROWLEY COUNTY...

AT 429 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTH OF
FORDER...OR 35 MILES NORTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 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...
ORDWAY AND SUGAR CITY. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

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 3839 10400 3852 10390 3852 10361 3851 10351
      3812 10371
TIME...MOT...LOC 2229Z 297DEG 16KT 3846 10377 

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

KAM

983 
WWUS55 KPUB 302240
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
440 PM MDT SAT JUL 30 2016

COC025-302250-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0249.000000T0000Z-160730T2300Z/
CROWLEY CO-
440 PM MDT SAT JUL 30 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL CROWLEY 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...GUSTY
WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3839 10400 3852 10390 3852 10361 3851 10351
      3812 10371
TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 311DEG 12KT 3843 10373 

$$

KAM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 6:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	32 min
Jul 30, 12:09 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 30, 1:53 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	67 min
Jul 30, 1:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	89 min
Jul 30, 1:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	83 min
Jul 30, 2:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Pueblo	23 min
Jul 30, 3:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	40 min
Jul 30, 3:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Pueblo	3 hr
Jul 30, 4:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	40 min
Jul 30, 4:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	43 min
Jul 30, 4:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		47 min
Jul 30, 5:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	51 min
Jul 30, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	33 min
Jul 30, 5:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	51 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.