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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 4, 2025Bent County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2025, 6:27 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 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: Aug 4, 2025, 6:27 PM MDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2025, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Bent County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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
Aug 4, 4:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 276 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: 924 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

964 
WUUS55 KPUB 050027
SVRPUB
COC011-050115-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0310.250805T0027Z-250805T0115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
627 PM MDT Mon Aug 4 2025

The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southern Bent County in southeastern Colorado...

* Until 715 PM MDT.

* At 627 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 21 miles south of
  John Martin Reservoir, or 29 miles southwest of Lamar, moving
  southwest at 10 mph.

  HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail 
           damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect 
           wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
  southern Bent County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3794 10310 3786 10279 3765 10287 3765 10307
      3780 10331
TIME...MOT...LOC 0027Z 024DEG 7KT 3777 10299 

THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

kam

3 follow-up statements

180 
WWUS55 KPUB 050036
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
636 PM MDT Mon Aug 4 2025

COC011-050115-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-250805T0115Z/
Bent CO-
636 PM MDT Mon Aug 4 2025

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHERN BENT COUNTY...

At 636 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 22 miles south of
John Martin Reservoir, or 30 miles southwest of Lamar, moving
southwest at 10 mph.

HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail 
         damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind 
         damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
southern Bent County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3794 10310 3786 10279 3765 10287 3765 10307
      3780 10331
TIME...MOT...LOC 0036Z 034DEG 7KT 3777 10301 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

kam

038 
WWUS55 KPUB 050046
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
646 PM MDT Mon Aug 4 2025

COC011-050115-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-250805T0115Z/
Bent CO-
646 PM MDT Mon Aug 4 2025

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY...

At 646 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 23 miles south of
John Martin Reservoir, or 31 miles southwest of Lamar, moving
southwest at 10 mph.

HAZARD...Two inch hail and 70 mph wind gusts.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail 
         damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect 
         considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to 
         mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.

This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
southeastern Bent County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3790 10302 3778 10282 3765 10287 3765 10307
      3777 10326
TIME...MOT...LOC 0046Z 024DEG 7KT 3775 10302 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...2.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...70 MPH

$$

kam

043 
WWUS55 KPUB 050056
SVSPUB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
656 PM MDT Mon Aug 4 2025

COC011-050115-
/O.CON.KPUB.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-250805T0115Z/
Bent CO-
656 PM MDT Mon Aug 4 2025

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY...

At 655 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 23 miles east of
Higbee, or 31 miles northwest of Springfield, moving southwest at 10
mph.

HAZARD...Tennis ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail 
         damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect 
         considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to 
         mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.

This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
southeastern Bent County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3786 10306 3778 10282 3765 10287 3765 10307
      3775 10323
TIME...MOT...LOC 0055Z 024DEG 7KT 3773 10303 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...2.50 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...70 MPH

$$

kam

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas	25 min
Aug 4, 6:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas	32 min
Aug 4, 7:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	PUB	Baca, Bent, Las Animas	63 min
Aug 4, 7:14 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas	31 min
Aug 4, 7:44 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Las Animas	31 min
Aug 4, 8:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	79 min
Aug 4, 8:14 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Las Animas	31 min
Aug 4, 9:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PUB	Baca, Las Animas	41 min
Aug 5, 2:10 PM MDT	Heat Advisory	PUB	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont and 4 more	54 hr
Aug 5, 2:19 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	PUB	Chaffee, Lake	13 hr
Aug 5, 3:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	27 min
Aug 5, 3:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	29 min
Aug 5, 4:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	44 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.