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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 15, 2018Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2018, 3:27 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 11 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: May 15, 2018, 3:27 PM MDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2018, 3:38 PM MDT
In force: 11 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), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 289 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: 1171 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

175 
WUUS55 KPUB 152127
SVRPUB
COC071-152200-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0002.180515T2127Z-180515T2200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
327 PM MDT TUE MAY 15 2018

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

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

* Until 400 PM MDT

* At 326 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles northwest
  of Model, or 17 miles northeast 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. 

* Locations impacted include...
  Tyrone, Model and Thatcher. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3733 10440 3745 10440 3757 10402 3726 10396
TIME...MOT...LOC 2126Z 263DEG 16KT 3739 10435 

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

Hodanish

1 follow-up statement

354 
WWUS55 KPUB 152138
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
338 PM MDT TUE MAY 15 2018

COC071-152148-
/O.CAN.KPUB.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-180515T2200Z/
Las Animas CO-
338 PM MDT TUE MAY 15 2018

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
                
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 has been cancelled.

LAT...LON 3733 10440 3745 10440 3757 10402 3726 10396
TIME...MOT...LOC 2136Z 263DEG 16KT 3740 10428 

$$

Hodanish

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 1:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	33 min
May 15, 2:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	31 min
May 15, 2:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	31 min
May 15, 2:46 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	PUB	Conejos, Costilla, Custer, Huerfano, Las Animas, Mineral and 3 more	24 hr
May 15, 3:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	34 min
May 15, 3:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Pueblo	35 min
May 15, 3:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	47 min
May 15, 4:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Otero	33 min
May 15, 4:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	36 min
May 15, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Otero	35 min
May 15, 5:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		28 min
May 15, 5:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	26 min
May 15, 5:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	32 min
May 15, 5:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	26 min
May 15, 5:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	24 min
May 15, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	37 min

Nearby

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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.