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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 9, 2016Huerfano County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2016, 4:27 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 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 9, 2016, 4:27 PM MDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2016, 4:51 PM MDT
In force
24 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), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 267 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2016-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2016-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2455 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

628 
WUUS55 KPUB 092227
SVRPUB
COC055-101-092315-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0055.160609T2227Z-160609T2315Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
427 PM MDT THU JUN 9 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...
  NORTH CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 426 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GREENHORN
  MOUNTAIN...OR 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTH 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. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GREENHORN MOUNTAIN...RYE...SAN ISABEL AND COLORADO CITY. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3798 10505 3804 10484 3769 10467 3763 10500
TIME...MOT...LOC 2226Z 344DEG 17KT 3796 10495 

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

KT
2 follow-up statements
278 
WWUS55 KPUB 092240
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
440 PM MDT THU JUN 9 2016

COC055-101-092315-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0055.000000T0000Z-160609T2315Z/
PUEBLO CO-HUERFANO CO-
440 PM MDT THU JUN 9 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN PUEBLO AND NORTH CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTIES...

AT 439 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHEAST
OF GREENHORN MOUNTAIN...OR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 10 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...
GREENHORN MOUNTAIN...RYE AND COLORADO CITY. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3796 10503 3802 10483 3769 10467 3763 10500
TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 332DEG 11KT 3795 10487 

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

KT
395 
WWUS55 KPUB 092251
SVSPUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
451 PM MDT THU JUN 9 2016

COC055-101-092301-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0055.000000T0000Z-160609T2315Z/
PUEBLO CO-HUERFANO CO-
451 PM MDT THU JUN 9 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN PUEBLO AND NORTH
CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTIES 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...GUSTY
WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3796 10503 3802 10483 3769 10467 3763 10500
TIME...MOT...LOC 2250Z 344DEG 17KT 3789 10485 

$$

KT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 2:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller45 min
Jun 9, 3:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBFremont50 min
Jun 9, 3:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBFremont48 min
Jun 9, 4:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBPueblo52 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.