Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2023
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2023, 3:28 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 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 11, 2023, 3:28 PM MDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2023, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 11:22 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 288 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
406
WUUS55 KPUB 112128
SVRPUB
COC061-112200-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0013.230511T2128Z-230511T2200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
328 PM MDT Thu May 11 2023
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
North central Kiowa County in southeastern Colorado...
* Until 400 PM MDT.
* At 327 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles northeast
of Haswell, or 40 miles southwest of Cheyenne Wells, moving north
at 10 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
north central Kiowa County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 600 PM MDT for southeastern
Colorado.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3850 10296 3847 10311 3861 10317 3862 10310
3861 10294
TIME...MOT...LOC 2127Z 165DEG 7KT 3857 10302
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
EHR2 follow-up statements
685
WWUS55 KPUB 112153
SVSPUB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
353 PM MDT Thu May 11 2023
COC061-112200-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-230511T2200Z/
Kiowa CO-
353 PM MDT Thu May 11 2023
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM MDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY...
At 352 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 13 miles northeast
of Haswell, or 39 miles west of Cheyenne Wells, moving north at 10
mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of north
central Kiowa County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 600 PM MDT for southeastern
Colorado.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3852 10296 3851 10313 3861 10317 3862 10310
3861 10294
TIME...MOT...LOC 2152Z 165DEG 7KT 3862 10304
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$911
WWUS55 KPUB 112200
SVSPUB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
400 PM MDT Thu May 11 2023
COC061-112209-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-230511T2200Z/
Kiowa CO-
400 PM MDT Thu May 11 2023
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 400 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.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 600 PM MDT for southeastern
Colorado.
LAT...LON 3852 10296 3851 10313 3861 10317 3862 10310
3861 10294
TIME...MOT...LOC 2159Z 165DEG 7KT 3863 10304
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 33 min |
| May 10, 7:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 47 min |
| May 10, 7:31 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 36 hr |
| May 10, 8:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | 23 min | |
| May 10, 8:43 PM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PUB | Chaffee, El Paso, Fremont, Lake, Saguache, Teller | 27 hr |
| May 10, 8:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Otero | 46 min |
| May 10, 9:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 33 min |
| May 10, 9:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 40 min |
| May 10, 10:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 60 min |
| May 10, 10:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Otero | 42 min |
| May 11, 1:46 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 29 min |
| May 11, 1:58 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 47 min |
| May 11, 2:51 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 24 min |
| May 11, 4:13 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 47 min |
| May 11, 4:43 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 32 min |
| May 11, 6:10 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 35 min |
| May 11, 6:58 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 32 min |
| May 11, 7:11 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| May 11, 7:56 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| May 11, 8:21 AM MDT | River Flood Watch | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| May 11, 10:22 AM MDT | River Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 21 hr |
| May 11, 12:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 47 min |
| May 11, 12:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 34 min |
| May 11, 1:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 35 min |
| May 11, 2:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 32 min |
| May 11, 2:47 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 42 hr |
| May 11, 2:51 PM MDT | River Flood Watch | PUB | Pueblo | 8 hr |
| May 11, 2:54 PM MDT | River Flood Watch | PUB | Otero | 28 hr |
| May 11, 3:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 30 min |
| May 11, 4:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 27 min |
| May 11, 4:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 29 min |
| May 11, 4:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 25 min |
| May 11, 4:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Crowley | 36 min |
| May 11, 5:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 37 min |
| May 11, 5:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Kiowa | 26 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.