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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 387, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2023, 5:53 PM MDT for El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2023, 5:53 PM MDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2023, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties El Paso County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 441 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
- 1423 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 3:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas | 64 min |
| Jul 13, 6:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 31 min |
| Jul 13, 6:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 25 min |
| Jul 13, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont, Pueblo | 25 min |
| Jul 13, 6:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Pueblo | 50 min |
| Jul 13, 6:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 30 min |
| Jul 13, 6:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 27 min |
| Jul 13, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 66 min |
| Jul 13, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 30 min |
| Jul 13, 7:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 25 min |
| Jul 13, 7:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 7:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 7:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 25 min |
| Jul 13, 7:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 63 min |
| Jul 13, 8:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 8:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 35 min |
| Jul 13, 8:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 26 min |
| Jul 13, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 8:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 53 min |
| Jul 13, 9:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 26 min |
| Jul 13, 9:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 36 min |
| Jul 13, 9:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 34 min |
| Jul 14, 4:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 36 min |
| Jul 14, 5:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 32 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.