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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2025, 1:57 PM MDT for El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 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, 2025, 1:57 PM MDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2025, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 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 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 448 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -507 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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, 11:48 AM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 11:48 AM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 11:23 AM MDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Pueblo CO 1123 AM MDT Mon Jul 14 2025 COZ058>089-093>099-151730- Western Mosquito Range/East Lake County Above 11000 Feet- Leadville Vicinity/Lake County Below 11000 Feet- Eastern Sawatch Mountains Above 11000 Feet- Western Chaffee County Between 9000 and 11000 Feet- Central Chaffee County Below 9000 Feet- Western Mosquito Range/East Chaffee County Above 9000 Feet- Saguache County West of Continental Divide Below 10000 Feet- Saguache County East of Continental Divide Below 10000 Feet- La Garita Mountains Above 10000 Feet- Upper Rio Grande Valley/Eastern San Juan Mountains Below 10000 Feet-Eastern San Juan Mountains Above 10000 Feet- Del Norte Vicinity/Northern San Luis Valley Below 8500 Feet- Alamosa Vicinity/Central San Luis Valley Below 8500 Feet- Southern San Luis Valley- Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 8500 And 11000 Feet- Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Feet- Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Feet- Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Feet- Northwestern Fremont County Above 8500 Feet- Western/Central Fremont County Below 8500 Feet- Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Feet- Wet Mountains between 6300 and 10000 Feet- Wet Mountains Above 10000 Feet- Teller County/Rampart Range Above 7500 Feet/Pikes Peak Between 7500 And 11000 Feet-Pikes Peak Above 11000 Feet- Canon City Vicinity/Eastern Fremont County- Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Feet- Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below 7400 Feet-Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet- Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Feet- Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Feet- Crowley County-La Junta Vicinity/Otero County- Eastern Las Animas County-Western Kiowa County- Eastern Kiowa County-Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County- Lamar Vicinity/Prowers County-Springfield Vicinity/Baca County- 1123 AM MDT Mon Jul 14 2025 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...east central...south central and southeast Colorado. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Showers and thunderstorms will develop across the higher terrain by early afternoon, and spread east into the Interstate 25 corridor by late afternoon to early evening. Thunderstorms will be capable of producing lightning, locally heavy rainfall, wind gusts near 50 mph and hail to half an inch in diameter. Thunderstorms will track east over the Interstate 25 corridor and dissipate this evening across the Plains. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday Daily afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms are expected Tuesday through Sunday. The best chances for storm activity will be found across the mountains and high valleys Tuesday, then will become more widespread and include the eastern plains starting Wednesday into next weekend. The primary threat from any of the stronger storms will be gusty outflow winds nearing 60 mph. Otherwise, the most likely hazards with any organized storms will be gusty outflow winds around 40 mph, small hail, frequent cloud to ground lightning, and brief periods of moderate to heavy rain. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather conditions that meet reporting criteria for spotters will be possible over portions of the region. SKELLY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 1:49 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 6:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 25 min |
| Jul 13, 6:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Chaffee | 34 min |
| Jul 13, 7:59 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Chaffee, Fremont, Saguache | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 1:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 2:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 2:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 2:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 2:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 23 min |
| Jul 14, 2:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Rio Grande | 36 min |
| Jul 14, 2:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 3:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 3:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Fremont | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 3:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 3:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 3:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 4:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Teller | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 4:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 4:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Custer | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 4:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 4:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 23 min |
| Jul 14, 5:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Pueblo | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 5:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 33 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.