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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 10, 2017Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2017, 5:14 PM MDT for Bent County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 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: May 10, 2017, 5:14 PM MDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2017, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bent County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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
May 10, 5:16 PM MDT	HAIL 0.88	4 W Lamar, CO
May 10, 5:30 PM MDT	HAIL 1.25	Wiley, 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 1001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

523 
WUUS55 KPUB 102314
SVRPUB
COC011-099-102345-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0040.170510T2314Z-170510T2345Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
514 PM MDT WED MAY 10 2017

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northwestern Prowers County in southeastern Colorado...
  Northeastern Bent County in southeastern Colorado...

* Until 545 PM MDT

* At 514 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Lamar, moving
  northeast 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...
  Wiley. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3803 10267 3806 10277 3821 10274 3817 10255
TIME...MOT...LOC 2314Z 205DEG 14KT 3808 10270 

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

mw

2 follow-up statements

993 
WWUS55 KPUB 102333
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
533 PM MDT WED MAY 10 2017

COC011-102342-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0040.000000T0000Z-170510T2345Z/
Bent CO-
533 PM MDT WED MAY 10 2017

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
    
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of 
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled for Bent 
County. 

LAT...LON 3812 10267 3812 10274 3821 10274 3818 10259
TIME...MOT...LOC 2332Z 192DEG 14KT 3815 10268 

$$

COC099-102345-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0040.000000T0000Z-170510T2345Z/
Prowers CO-
533 PM MDT WED MAY 10 2017

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY...

At 532 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Wiley, or near
Lamar, 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...
Wiley.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3812 10267 3812 10274 3821 10274 3818 10259
TIME...MOT...LOC 2332Z 192DEG 14KT 3815 10268 

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

mw

520 
WWUS55 KPUB 102342
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
542 PM MDT WED MAY 10 2017

COC099-102352-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0040.000000T0000Z-170510T2345Z/
Prowers CO-
542 PM MDT WED MAY 10 2017

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 545 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 3812 10267 3812 10274 3821 10274 3818 10259
TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 205DEG 14KT 3818 10266 

$$

mw

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 6:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	24 min
May 9, 6:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo	3 hr
May 9, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	19 min
May 9, 7:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	30 min
May 9, 9:29 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	PUB	Las Animas	10 hr
May 10, 4:30 AM MDT	Winter Storm Warning	PUB	Alamosa, Costilla, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano and 4 more	32 hr
May 10, 4:38 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas	18 hr
May 10, 1:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	26 min
May 10, 1:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	46 min
May 10, 1:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	50 min
May 10, 1:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Conejos	41 min
May 10, 1:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Rio Grande	47 min
May 10, 2:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	37 min
May 10, 2:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	27 min
May 10, 2:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	40 min
May 10, 2:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	51 min
May 10, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	50 min
May 10, 2:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	41 min
May 10, 3:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Saguache	3 hr
May 10, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Costilla, Huerfano	31 min
May 10, 3:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, Pueblo	60 min
May 10, 3:19 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	8 hr
May 10, 3:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas, Otero	41 min
May 10, 3:28 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Saguache	3 hr
May 10, 3:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	45 min
May 10, 3:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	24 min
May 10, 3:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	34 min
May 10, 3:59 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Pueblo	9 hr
May 10, 4:05 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	3 hr
May 10, 4:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Pueblo	48 min
May 10, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	31 min
May 10, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	29 min
May 10, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	50 min
May 10, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	48 min
May 10, 4:48 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	3 hr
May 10, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	32 min
May 10, 5:52 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Crowley, Otero, Pueblo	3 hr

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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.