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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 25, 2017Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2017, 5:43 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 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 25, 2017, 5:43 PM MDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2017, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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
Jun 25, 2:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 308 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: 475 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

838 
WUUS55 KPUB 252343
SVRPUB
COC071-260015-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0113.170625T2343Z-170626T0015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
543 PM MDT SUN JUN 25 2017

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  South central Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado...

* Until 615 PM MDT

* At 542 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 10 miles southeast
  of Hoehne, or 11 miles east of Trinidad, 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
  south central Las Animas County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3705 10443 3723 10435 3720 10396 3699 10406
      3699 10428
TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 287DEG 17KT 3715 10429 

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

BL

1 follow-up statement

523 
WWUS55 KPUB 260003
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
603 PM MDT SUN JUN 25 2017

COC071-260015-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-170626T0015Z/
Las Animas CO-
603 PM MDT SUN JUN 25 2017

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...

At 602 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles northwest of
Trinchera, or 19 miles east of Trinidad, 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 south
central Las Animas County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3703 10436 3722 10424 3720 10396 3699 10406
      3699 10428
TIME...MOT...LOC 0002Z 279DEG 19KT 3713 10416 

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

BL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 12:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	46 min
Jun 25, 1:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	45 min
Jun 25, 2:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	40 min
Jun 25, 2:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	52 min
Jun 25, 2:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Conejos, Rio Grande	42 min
Jun 25, 2:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	25 min
Jun 25, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	51 min
Jun 25, 3:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	55 min
Jun 25, 3:25 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	35 min
Jun 25, 3:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PUB	Baca	47 min
Jun 25, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	18 min
Jun 25, 3:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	42 min
Jun 25, 4:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	44 min
Jun 25, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	47 min
Jun 25, 4:34 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	26 min
Jun 25, 4:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	46 min
Jun 25, 4:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	38 min
Jun 25, 5:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	27 min
Jun 25, 5:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	37 min
Jun 25, 5:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	29 min
Jun 25, 5:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	35 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.