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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 2016Huerfano County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2016, 5:47 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2016, 5:47 PM MDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2016, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Huerfano County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 7, 5:55 PM MDT	HAIL 1	7 E Colorado City, CO	FIVE MINUTE DURATION, BEGAN AT 0550 PM MDT.
Jun 7, 6:24 PM MDT	HAIL 1	8 Ne Colorado City, CO	.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 246 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: 1786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

601 
WUUS55 KPUB 072347
SVRPUB
COC055-101-080015-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0047.160607T2347Z-160608T0015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
547 PM MDT TUE JUN 7 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
  NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 547 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 16 MILES EAST OF
  GREENHORN MOUNTAIN...OR 23 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO...MOVING NORTH 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...
  COLORADO CITY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3778 10459 3789 10485 3818 10476 3807 10426
TIME...MOT...LOC 2347Z 197DEG 15KT 3794 10472 

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

KAM

2 follow-up statements

982 
WWUS55 KPUB 080000
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
600 PM MDT TUE JUN 7 2016

COC055-101-080015-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0047.000000T0000Z-160608T0015Z/
PUEBLO CO-HUERFANO CO-
600 PM MDT TUE JUN 7 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHERN PUEBLO AND NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES...

AT 559 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES EAST OF
GREENHORN MOUNTAIN...OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO...MOVING NORTH AT 15
MPH.

HAZARD...GOLF 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...
COLORADO CITY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3782 10457 3792 10484 3818 10476 3807 10426
TIME...MOT...LOC 2359Z 197DEG 14KT 3798 10470 

HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

KAM

071 
WWUS55 KPUB 080006
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
606 PM MDT TUE JUN 7 2016

COC055-101-080015-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0047.000000T0000Z-160608T0015Z/
PUEBLO CO-HUERFANO CO-
606 PM MDT TUE JUN 7 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN PUEBLO AND NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES...

AT 606 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 16 MILES SOUTH OF
SALT CREEK...OR 18 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

HAZARD...GOLF 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...
COLORADO CITY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3786 10458 3791 10480 3792 10484 3818 10476
      3810 10441
TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 197DEG 15KT 3801 10469 

HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

KAM!

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 6:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	27 min
Jun 6, 6:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	26 min
Jun 6, 7:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	43 min
Jun 6, 7:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	41 min
Jun 6, 7:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	23 min
Jun 6, 8:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	41 min
Jun 7, 2:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	51 min
Jun 7, 3:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	42 min
Jun 7, 3:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	35 min
Jun 7, 3:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	51 min
Jun 7, 4:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	24 min
Jun 7, 4:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	29 min
Jun 7, 4:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	40 min
Jun 7, 5:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	41 min
Jun 7, 5:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	45 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.