Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2026, 6:05 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 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 30, 2026, 6:05 PM MDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2026, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 858 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
561
WUUS55 KPUB 310005
SVRPUB
COC009-099-310030-
/O.NEW.KPUB.SV.W.0310.260831T0005Z-260831T0030Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
605 PM MDT Sun Aug 30 2026
The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Prowers County in southeastern Colorado...
Northeastern Baca County in southeastern Colorado...
* Until 630 PM MDT.
* At 605 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles east of
Two Buttes, or 15 miles northwest of The Saunders Elevator, moving
east at 30 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
southeastern Prowers and northeastern Baca Counties.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3751 10234 3767 10236 3781 10205 3780 10204
3752 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0005Z 254DEG 24KT 3761 10224
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
015
WWUS55 KPUB 310023
SVSPUB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
623 PM MDT Sun Aug 30 2026
COC009-099-310033-
/O.EXP.KPUB.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-260831T0030Z/
Prowers CO-Baca CO-
623 PM MDT Sun Aug 30 2026
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS AND
NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 630 PM MDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and has exited the warned area. Therefore, the warning will
be allowed to expire.
&&
LAT...LON 3751 10234 3767 10236 3781 10205 3780 10204
3752 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 0023Z 254DEG 24KT 3763 10216
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 6:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Mineral | 24 min |
| Aug 30, 6:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 36 min |
| Aug 30, 6:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Mineral | 31 min |
| Aug 30, 7:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 33 min |
| Aug 30, 7:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 52 min |
| Aug 30, 7:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 37 min |
| Aug 30, 8:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 49 min |
| Aug 30, 10:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | El Paso | 42 min |
| Aug 30, 10:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 36 min |
| Aug 30, 10:57 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | PUB | Chaffee, Lake, Saguache | 22 hr |
| Aug 30, 11:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Prowers | 44 min |
| Aug 30, 11:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 12:00 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 45 min |
| Aug 31, 1:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 23 min |
| Aug 31, 1:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 36 min |
| Aug 31, 2:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 2:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 3:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 3:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 32 min |
| Aug 31, 3:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Huerfano | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 30 min |
| Aug 31, 3:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero, Pueblo | 28 min |
| Aug 31, 4:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Las Animas | 23 min |
| Aug 31, 4:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 30 min |
| Aug 31, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Las Animas, Otero | 24 min |
| Aug 31, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 5:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Otero | 30 min |
| Aug 31, 5:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 5:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 27 min |
| Aug 31, 5:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Alamosa | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 5:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Saguache | 36 min |
| Aug 31, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 5:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Costilla | 29 min |
| Aug 31, 5:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Baca | 36 min |
| Aug 31, 5:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Bent | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 5:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | PUB | Alamosa | 32 min |
| Aug 31, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers | 54 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.