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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 2017Huerfano County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2017, 5:02 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 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, 2017, 5:02 PM MDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2017, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Huerfano County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 298 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: 1579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

825 
WUUS55 KPUB 072302
SVRPUB
COC055-072330-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0092.170607T2302Z-170607T2330Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
502 PM MDT WED JUN 7 2017

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

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

* Until 530 PM MDT

* At 502 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near La Veta Pass,
  or 43 miles east of Alamosa, moving south at 30 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...
  La Veta and Farisita. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground
lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately.
Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can
hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.

Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3767 10519 3775 10507 3752 10468 3735 10508
TIME...MOT...LOC 2302Z 337DEG 24KT 3762 10510 

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

kam

2 follow-up statements

110 
WWUS55 KPUB 072319
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
519 PM MDT WED JUN 7 2017

COC055-072330-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0092.000000T0000Z-170607T2330Z/
Huerfano CO-
519 PM MDT WED JUN 7 2017

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM MDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY...

At 519 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near La Veta Pass,
or 43 miles northwest of Trinidad, moving southeast 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...
La Veta and Farisita. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.

Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3767 10519 3775 10507 3752 10468 3735 10508
TIME...MOT...LOC 2319Z 331DEG 12KT 3760 10508 

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

kam

512 
WWUS55 KPUB 072327
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
527 PM MDT WED JUN 7 2017

COC055-072337-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0092.000000T0000Z-170607T2330Z/
Huerfano CO-
527 PM MDT WED JUN 7 2017

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 530 PM MDT...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore the warning will be allowed to expire.  However small hail
and heavy rain are still possible with this thunderstorm.

LAT...LON 3767 10519 3775 10507 3752 10468 3735 10508
TIME...MOT...LOC 2327Z 337DEG 24KT 3756 10506 

$$

kam

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 6:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	45 min
Jun 6, 6:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers	3 hr
Jun 6, 6:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Kiowa	3 hr
Jun 6, 6:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	3 hr
Jun 6, 6:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	44 min
Jun 7, 1:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	46 min
Jun 7, 1:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	38 min
Jun 7, 2:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	46 min
Jun 7, 2:18 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Fremont	3 hr
Jun 7, 3:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	42 min
Jun 7, 3:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	37 min
Jun 7, 3:42 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	3 hr
Jun 7, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Huerfano, Pueblo	31 min
Jun 7, 4:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Fremont, Pueblo	37 min
Jun 7, 4:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Fremont, Pueblo	3 hr
Jun 7, 4:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	38 min
Jun 7, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	46 min
Jun 7, 5:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	50 min
Jun 7, 5:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	48 min
Jun 7, 5:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Huerfano	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.