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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 20164 counties in Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2016, 6:52 PM MDT for 4 counties in 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: Jun 7, 2016, 6:52 PM MDT (00:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2016, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 910 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2301 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

410 
WUUS55 KPUB 080052
SVRPUB
COC055-071-089-101-080115-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0050.160608T0052Z-160608T0115Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
  SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
  NORTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
  NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 652 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 22 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FOWLER...OR 31 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PUEBLO...MOVING
  EAST 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. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  SOUTHWESTERN OTERO...SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO...NORTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS
  AND NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3778 10450 3795 10454 3805 10405 3777 10384
TIME...MOT...LOC 0052Z 264DEG 16KT 3789 10430 

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

KAM

1 follow-up statement

770 
WWUS55 KPUB 080105
SVSPUB

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

COC055-071-089-101-080115-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0050.000000T0000Z-160608T0115Z/
OTERO CO-PUEBLO CO-LAS ANIMAS CO-HUERFANO CO-
705 PM MDT TUE JUN 7 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN OTERO...
SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO...NORTHWESTERN LAS ANIMAS AND NORTHEASTERN
HUERFANO COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 715 PM MDT...
                
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 WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER SMALL HAIL
IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3778 10450 3795 10454 3805 10405 3777 10384
TIME...MOT...LOC 0103Z 264DEG 16KT 3789 10430 

$$

KAM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 6:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	47 min
Jun 7, 6:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	42 min
Jun 7, 6:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	32 min
Jun 7, 6:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	44 min
Jun 7, 6:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	26 min
Jun 7, 7:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	45 min
Jun 7, 7:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	35 min
Jun 7, 8:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	51 min
Jun 8, 1:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	52 min
Jun 8, 1:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	33 min
Jun 8, 2:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	39 min
Jun 8, 2:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	42 min
Jun 8, 4:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	49 min
Jun 8, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas	40 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.