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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 15, 2016Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2016, 4:04 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 15 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: Apr 15, 2016, 4:04 PM MDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2016, 4:19 PM MDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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
Apr 15, 1:57 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 1499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

048 
WUUS55 KPUB 152204
SVRPUB
COC061-152230-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0005.160415T2204Z-160415T2230Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
404 PM MDT FRI APR 15 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT

* AT 404 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EADS...OR 29
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING NORTH AT 35 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. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY.

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 900 PM MDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
COLORADO.

LAT...LON 3850 10268 3852 10292 3861 10290 3862 10287
      3861 10261
TIME...MOT...LOC 2204Z 198DEG 31KT 3857 10278 

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

KT

1 follow-up statement

491 
WWUS55 KPUB 152219
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
419 PM MDT FRI APR 15 2016

COC061-152228-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160415T2230Z/
KIOWA CO-
419 PM MDT FRI APR 15 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
COLORADO.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR
CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM

LAT...LON 3850 10268 3852 10292 3861 10290 3862 10287
      3861 10261
TIME...MOT...LOC 2217Z 198DEG 31KT 3869 10273 

$$

KT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 10:28 AM MDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PUB	Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 4 more	41 hr
Apr 15, 12:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	38 min
Apr 15, 1:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	40 min
Apr 15, 1:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	31 min
Apr 15, 1:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	24 min
Apr 15, 2:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	38 min
Apr 15, 2:39 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	36 min
Apr 15, 2:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	43 min
Apr 15, 3:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Kiowa	3 hr
Apr 15, 3:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	20 min
Apr 15, 3:22 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	8 min
Apr 15, 3:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	50 min
Apr 15, 3:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	48 min
Apr 15, 4:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	49 min
Apr 15, 4:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	30 min
Apr 15, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	67 min
Apr 15, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	45 min
Apr 15, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	31 min

Nearby

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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.