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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 4, 2021Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2021, 8:08 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 4, 2021, 8:08 PM MDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2021, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 4, 2:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 1508 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1147 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 6.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

568 
WUUS55 KPUB 050208
SVRPUB
COC061-099-050245-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0224.210705T0208Z-210705T0245Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
808 PM MDT Sun Jul 4 2021

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northeastern Prowers County in southeastern Colorado...
  Southeastern Kiowa County in southeastern Colorado...

* Until 845 PM MDT.

* At 807 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles south of
  Towner, or 18 miles north of Coolidge, moving southwest at 25 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...
  Holly, Hartman and Bristol. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

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

&&

LAT...LON 3810 10235 3843 10205 3799 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0207Z 027DEG 21KT 3830 10205 

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

kam

1 follow-up statement

467 
WWUS55 KPUB 050229
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
829 PM MDT Sun Jul 4 2021

COC061-099-050245-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0224.000000T0000Z-210705T0245Z/
Prowers CO-Kiowa CO-
829 PM MDT Sun Jul 4 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM MDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN PROWERS AND SOUTHEASTERN KIOWA COUNTIES...

At 829 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Hartman, or 11
miles northwest of Coolidge, moving southwest at 25 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...
Holly, Hartman and Bristol. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

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

&&

LAT...LON 3817 10228 3827 10217 3821 10205 3799 10204
      3810 10235
TIME...MOT...LOC 0229Z 028DEG 23KT 3816 10215 

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

kam

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 6:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	25 min
Jul 4, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	42 min
Jul 4, 6:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	41 min
Jul 4, 6:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	26 min
Jul 4, 6:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	35 min
Jul 4, 7:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	41 min
Jul 4, 7:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	41 min
Jul 4, 7:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	38 min
Jul 4, 7:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	46 min
Jul 4, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	17 min
Jul 4, 7:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	21 min
Jul 4, 8:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	30 min
Jul 4, 8:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	51 min
Jul 4, 8:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	44 min
Jul 4, 8:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	42 min
Jul 4, 8:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	25 min
Jul 4, 8:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	35 min
Jul 4, 8:36 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Prowers	2 hr
Jul 4, 8:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	33 min
Jul 4, 8:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Prowers	31 min
Jul 4, 8:48 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Custer, Fremont	85 min
Jul 4, 9:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	44 min
Jul 4, 9:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	35 min
Jul 4, 9:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	38 min
Jul 4, 9:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		31 min
Jul 4, 9:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Bent	34 min
Jul 5, 2:39 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	PUB	Alamosa, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Huerfano and 4 more	18 hr
Jul 5, 12:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Chaffee	3 hr
Jul 5, 1:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	48 min
Jul 5, 1:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Mineral	35 min
Jul 5, 1:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Chaffee	38 min
Jul 5, 2:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	23 min
Jul 5, 2:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	47 min
Jul 5, 2:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	24 min
Jul 5, 2:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	35 min
Jul 5, 2:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Fremont	33 min
Jul 5, 3:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	36 min
Jul 5, 3:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Rio Grande	31 min
Jul 5, 3:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Saguache	37 min
Jul 5, 3:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	31 min
Jul 5, 3:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	31 min
Jul 5, 3:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PUB	Custer	56 min
Jul 5, 4:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	28 min
Jul 5, 4:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Alamosa	37 min
Jul 5, 4:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	34 min
Jul 5, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Saguache	26 min
Jul 5, 4:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Custer, Huerfano	3 hr
Jul 5, 4:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	38 min
Jul 5, 4:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Custer	32 min
Jul 5, 5:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.