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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 354, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 11, 2025Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2025, 5:41 PM MDT for Baca County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 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: Aug 11, 2025, 5:41 PM MDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2025, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 304 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Aug 10, 5:52 PM MDT, 23 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 5:52 PM MDT, 23 hours 49 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 6:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	25 min
Aug 10, 7:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	45 min
Aug 10, 7:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	26 min
Aug 10, 7:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Teller	37 min
Aug 10, 7:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Prowers	29 min
Aug 10, 7:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	28 min
Aug 10, 8:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	34 min
Aug 10, 8:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	31 min
Aug 10, 8:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	17 min
Aug 10, 8:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	El Paso	32 min
Aug 10, 8:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	31 min
Aug 10, 10:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	37 min
Aug 10, 10:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Huerfano	24 min
Aug 10, 11:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	28 min
Aug 11, 2:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		33 min
Aug 11, 2:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	35 min
Aug 11, 3:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB		31 min
Aug 11, 4:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	43 min
Aug 11, 4:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Costilla	37 min
Aug 11, 4:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Las Animas	38 min
Aug 11, 5:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Kiowa	33 min
Aug 11, 5:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	PUB	Baca	30 min

Nearby

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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.