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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Pueblo, CO

September 3, 2016Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2016, 5:18 PM MDT for Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 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: Sep 3, 2016, 5:18 PM MDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired: Sep 3, 2016, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bent County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 243 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: 2370 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 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.

794 
WUUS55 KPUB 032318
SVRPUB
COC011-099-032345-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0267.160903T2318Z-160903T2345Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
518 PM MDT SAT SEP 3 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
  SOUTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT

* AT 518 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES WEST OF
  TWO BUTTES RESERVOIR...OR 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  SPRINGFIELD...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. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS AND SOUTHEASTERN BENT COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

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

&&

LAT...LON 3765 10295 3775 10296 3785 10264 3765 10263
TIME...MOT...LOC 2318Z 253DEG 21KT 3771 10289 

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

MW

1 follow-up statement

469 
WWUS55 KPUB 032329
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
529 PM MDT SAT SEP 3 2016

COC011-099-032345-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0267.000000T0000Z-160903T2345Z/
PROWERS CO-BENT CO-
529 PM MDT SAT SEP 3 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS AND SOUTHEASTERN BENT COUNTIES...

AT 529 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTHWEST
OF TWO BUTTES RESERVOIR...OR 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF
SPRINGFIELD...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. 

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS AND SOUTHEASTERN BENT COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

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

&&

LAT...LON 3765 10293 3777 10290 3785 10264 3765 10263
TIME...MOT...LOC 2329Z 263DEG 20KT 3772 10281 

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

MW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 3, 2:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	27 min
Sep 3, 4:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	47 min
Sep 3, 5:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	33 min
Sep 3, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	47 min
Sep 3, 5:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	26 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.