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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 4, 2016Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2016, 3:27 PM MDT for Baca 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: Aug 4, 2016, 3:27 PM MDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2016, 3:47 PM MDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 251 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: 113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -269 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2198 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

636 
WUUS55 KPUB 042127
SVRPUB
COC009-042200-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0252.160804T2127Z-160804T2200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
327 PM MDT THU AUG 4 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT

* AT 327 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NORTH OF
  SPRINGFIELD... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

  HAZARD...PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES. EXPECT 
           WIND DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SPRINGFIELD...VILAS...TWO BUTTES AND TWO BUTTES RESERVOIR. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3740 10306 3763 10306 3763 10235 3747 10245
      3735 10237
TIME...MOT...LOC 2127Z 269DEG 14KT 3749 10262 

HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

TLM

2 follow-up statements

877 
WWUS55 KPUB 042141
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
341 PM MDT THU AUG 4 2016

COC009-042200-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-160804T2200Z/
BACA CO-
341 PM MDT THU AUG 4 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM MDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY...

AT 340 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED AROUND 10
MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD... MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SPRINGFIELD...VILAS...TWO BUTTES AND TWO BUTTES RESERVOIR. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3740 10306 3763 10306 3763 10235 3747 10245
      3735 10237
TIME...MOT...LOC 2140Z 269DEG 14KT 3749 10255 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

TLM

335 
WWUS55 KPUB 042147
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
347 PM MDT THU AUG 4 2016

COC009-042156-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-160804T2200Z/
BACA CO-
347 PM MDT THU AUG 4 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN BACA 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
GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3740 10306 3763 10306 3763 10235 3747 10245
      3735 10237
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 269DEG 14KT 3749 10252 

$$

TLM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 6:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	42 min
Aug 3, 6:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Fremont	113 min
Aug 4, 1:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	41 min
Aug 4, 1:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		45 min
Aug 4, 2:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	28 min
Aug 4, 2:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	50 min
Aug 4, 3:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso and 9 more	32 hr
Aug 4, 4:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	45 min
Aug 4, 4:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	37 min
Aug 4, 4:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Prowers	2 hr

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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.