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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 27, 2017Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2017, 3:48 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report 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 27, 2017, 3:48 PM MDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2017, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Possible
Hail
1.75 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 4:25 PM MDTHAIL 0.887 Nw Tyrone, 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 283 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 2017-05-27Temperature 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 2017-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -55 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

821 
WUUS55 KPUB 272148
SVRPUB
COC055-071-272230-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0068.170527T2148Z-170527T2230Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
348 PM MDT SAT MAY 27 2017

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  East central Huerfano County in southeastern Colorado...
  Central Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado...

* Until 430 PM MDT

* At 347 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles east of
  Walsenburg, or 27 miles north of Trinidad, moving east at 50 mph.

  HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

  IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail 
           damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect 
           considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to 
           mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. 

* Locations impacted include...
  Walsenburg and Tyrone. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3749 10483 3772 10477 3766 10406 3731 10407
TIME...MOT...LOC 2147Z 276DEG 41KT 3757 10457 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

KT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 6:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso50 min
May 26, 6:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso45 min
May 26, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso61 min
May 26, 7:52 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso23 min
May 26, 8:14 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso21 min
May 27, 12:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller33 min
May 27, 1:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBTeller35 min
May 27, 1:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBPueblo39 min
May 27, 2:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBPueblo49 min
May 27, 2:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBHuerfano33 min
May 27, 3:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas44 min
May 27, 3:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBOtero51 min
May 27, 3:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBLas Animas24 min
May 27, 3:53 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas37 min
May 27, 4:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBPueblo43 min
May 27, 4:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBent39 min
May 27, 4:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Crowley, Otero27 min
May 27, 4:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas38 min
May 27, 4:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas48 min
May 27, 4:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent32 min
May 27, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas39 min
May 27, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Prowers30 min
May 27, 5:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas52 min
May 27, 5:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBLas Animas39 min
May 27, 5:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBBaca50 min
May 27, 5:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPUBProwers46 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.