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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 1, 2021Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2021, 8:15 PM MDT for Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 15 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 1, 2021, 8:15 PM MDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2021, 8:30 PM MDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

448 
WUUS55 KPUB 020215
SVRPUB
COC009-071-020230-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0141.210602T0215Z-210602T0230Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
815 PM MDT Tue Jun 1 2021

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southwestern Baca County in southeastern Colorado...
  Southeastern Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado...

* Until 830 PM MDT.

* At 814 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles northwest
  of Kenton, or 36 miles southwest of Springfield, 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
  southwestern Baca and southeastern Las Animas Counties.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3710 10314 3708 10276 3700 10276 3700 10319
TIME...MOT...LOC 0214Z 276DEG 18KT 3704 10309 

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

KTS

1 follow-up statement

712 
WWUS55 KPUB 020227
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
827 PM MDT Tue Jun 1 2021

COC009-071-020237-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0141.000000T0000Z-210602T0230Z/
Baca CO-Las Animas CO-
827 PM MDT Tue Jun 1 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN BACA AND
SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 830 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 heavy rain
is still possible with this thunderstorm.

LAT...LON 3710 10314 3708 10276 3700 10276 3700 10319
TIME...MOT...LOC 0227Z 276DEG 18KT 3703 10301 

$$

KTS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 6:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	56 min
Jun 1, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	45 min
Jun 1, 6:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Crowley	56 min
Jun 1, 6:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		34 min
Jun 1, 7:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	34 min
Jun 1, 7:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		28 min
Jun 1, 7:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	34 min
Jun 1, 8:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	27 min
Jun 1, 8:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	46 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.