Severe storms occurred over far southeast Colorado producing large hail and landspout tornadoes in central Baca County and southeast Prowers County.
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The episode as NWS PUB wrote it up.
Severe storms occurred over far southeast Colorado producing large hail and landspout tornadoes in central Baca County and southeast Prowers County.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 14, 11:07 AM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1207 PM MDT THU JUN 14 2012 .UPDATE... THE WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY MOVING ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS EARLY THIS MORNING LOOKS TO HAVE STALLED ALONG THE COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO BORDER AT THIS TIME. LATEST HIGH RES MODEL GUIDANCE SUGGESTS THIS BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHEAST PLAINS AND WILL BE A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL INCREASE ALONG AND NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY WITH SPC AND LAPS ANALYSIS INDICATING 1500 TO NEAR 4000 JOULES OF CAPE IN PLACE AT THIS TIME...ALONG WITH AMPLE CINH WITH WARM AIR ALOFT. HOWEVER...WITH CONVERGENCE ALONG BOUNDARY...CANT RULE OUT ONE OR TWO SEVERE STORMS WITH LARGE AND STRONG WINDS THE MAIN THREATS. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED LAND SPOUT TORNADO CAN NOT BE RULED OUT ALONG THIS BOUNDARY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAS ANIMAS...BACA...BENT AND PROWERS COUNTIES. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS AND IMMEDIATE AJACENT PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE MOST COVERAGE ACROSS THE PIKES PEAK AND PALMER DIVIDE REGIONS. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 45 MPH...WITH SMALL HAIL POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. -MW && .AVIATION... WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY MOVING ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS THIS MORNING HAS STALLED ACROSS THE COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO BORDER. BOUNDARY LOOKS TO REMAIN IN PLACE AND WILL BE A FOCUS FOR THUNDESTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS WILL KEEP GUSTY EASTERLY LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE FLOW IN PLACE AT BOTH COS AND PUB THIS AFTERNOON WITH BEST CHANCES OF TS AFFECTING TERMINALS AT COS BETWEEN 23Z-04Z. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE EXPECTED TO INCREASE OVERNIGHT WITH POSSIBLE LOW MVFR CIGS DEVELOPING AT BOTH COS AND PUB THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING. VFR CONDTIONS WITH BREEZY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST DIUNRALLY DRIVEN WINDS EXPECTED AT ALS. -MW && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 537 AM MDT THU JUN 14 2012/ SHORT TERM... (TODAY AND TONIGHT) ..THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL INCREASES OVER THE EAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... RIGHT NOW...DEWPOINTS ARE WAY UP OVER THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS...RANGING FROM THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 60S ACROSS BACA...PROWERS AND KIOWA COUNTIES AT THIS HOUR. HOWEVER...BACK ACROSS THE I-25 CORRIDOR...DEWPOINTS ARE ONLY IN THE MID 30S TO MID 40S...AND BACK ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND HIGH VALLEYS...DEWPOINTS ARE ONLY IN THE TEENS AND 20S. THIS AFTERNOON AND ESPECIALLY TONIGHT...THE MOISTURE TO OUR EAST WILL MAKE A RUN TOWARD THE MOUNTAINS...ADVECTING 50 DEGREE DEWPOINTS TO THE I-25 CORRIDOR. MODELS ARE A BIT VARIABLE ON THEIR EXPECTATIONS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE GFS IS THE MOST AGGRESSIVE...DEVELOPING FAIRLY WIDESPREAD CONVECTION FIRST OVER THE PIKES PEAK REGION...INCLUDING TELLER AND EL PASO COUNTIES...BY LATE AFTERNOON AND THEN SPREADING IT EASTWARD ACROSS THE PLAINS TO THE KANSAS BORDER DURING THE EVENING HOURS...WITH MOST CONVECTION GENERALLY REMAINING NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER. THE NAM IS SORT OF SIMILAR. IT HAS MORE STORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS SOUTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER DURING THE AFTERNOON. BUT...DURING THE EVENING...IT IS SIMILAR TO THE GFS IN DEPICTING STORM DEVELOPMENT ALONG A BOUNDARY NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER...ALTHOUGH WITH MUCH LESS INTENSITY AND COVERAGE THAN THE GFS. THE ECMWF REALLY DOESN'T HAVE MUCH OF A DISTINCT BOUNDARY AND JUST INDICATES SOME BROADBRUSH LIGHT PRECIP AMOUNTS RIGHT ALONG THE KANSAS BORDER. THE NSSL WRF BREAKS OUT CONVECTION FIRST ACROSS BACA COUNTY AND THE PALMER DIVIDE BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM...WITH SOME SPOTTY HIGH BASED STUFF POPPING OVER THE MOUNTAINS. THIS FIRST ROUND OF CONVECTION COULD BE STRONG... ESPECIALLY ACROSS BACA COUNTY. HOWEVER...THE MORE SIGNIFICANT CONVECTION LOOKS TO ARRIVE THIS EVENING...WHEN THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE MAKES A RUN TOWARD THE MOUNTAINS. DURING THIS TIME...THE NSSL WRF BREAKS OUT NEW CONVECTION OVER EL PASO COUNTY...WHICH THEN PROPAGATES EASTWARD ACROSS THE BOUNDARY...STAYING MAINLY NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER. IN GENERAL...THE NSSL WRF PROBABLY HAS THE BEST HANDLE ON THINGS. SO...WE SHOULD SEE A FIRST ROUND OF CONVECTION TODAY...POSSIBLY STRONG OVER THE FAR SOUTHEASTERN PLAINS...BUT MOSTLY JUST HIGH BASED WITH GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING ELSEWHERE. AND THEN TONIGHT...WE SHOULD SEE A SECOND ROUND OF CONVECTION FOCUSED MAINLY ACROSS THE PLAINS NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER...WITH THE BEST ODDS PROBABLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM COLORADO SPRINGS TO LAMAR. SHEAR VALUES ARE MARGINAL...ONLY ABOUT 35 KNOTS TOPS...SO PRIMARY SEVERE THREATS ARE LOOKING LIKE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AT THIS POINT. LW LONG TERM... (FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY) LONGER TERM METEOROLOGICAL CHALLENGES INCLUDE RELATIVELY ACTIVE METEOROLOGICAL PATTERN(ESPECIALLY EASTERN SECTIONS) INTO SATURDAY ..ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS AT TIMES(ESPECIALLY WESTERN SECTIONS)...ON FRIDAY AND ESPECIALLY FROM SUNDAY INTO NEXT TUESDAY AND TEMPERATURES. LONGER TERM COMPUTER SIMULATIONS SUGGEST THAT RELATIVELY VIGOROUS CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER EASTERN SECTIONS AT TIMES FROM LATER FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT AS DEEPER ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE INTERACTS WITH THE DAILY HEATING CYCLE AND UPPER DISTURBANCES. LOCALIZED PROJECTED CAPES NEARING 3000 J/KG AT TIMES...LOCALIZED LIS NEARING -9C AT TIMES AND 0 TO 6 KM BULK SHEAR VALUES APPROACHING 40 KNOTS AT TIMES SHOULD ALLOW SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS(OVER EASTERN SECTIONS) TO REACH NEAR SEVERE TO SEVERE LIMITS LATER FRIDAY AND THEN AGAIN BY LATER SATURDAY. WFO PUEBLO WILL MONITOR CLOSELY. THEN AS DRIER CONDITIONS MOVE INTO THE FORECAST DISTRICT FROM LATER SUNDAY INTO NEXT WEEK...THE METEOROLOGICAL FOCUS SHIFTS TO DRIER AND CONTINUED WARM CONDITIONS OVER THE CWFA FROM SUNDAY INTO NEXT WEEK WITH ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY FROM SUNDAY INTO TUESDAY. WARMEST CONDITIONS OF THE LONGER TERM ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY AND MONDAY WHILE COOLEST CONDITIONS SHOULD BE NOTED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. AVIATION... GENERALLY VFR THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON ACROSS FORECAST AREA...ALTHOUGH SOME PATCHES OF MVFR STRATUS MAY EXIST ACROSS PARTS OF THE FAR SOUTHEAST THIS MORNING THROUGH ABOUT 15Z. AFTER ABOUT 20Z...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ENOUGH FOR SOME LOCAL SPOTTY MVFR CONDITIONS TO DEVELOP. AFTER ABOUT 00Z...STORM COVERAGE AND INTENSITIES WILL INCREASE OVER THE PLAINS NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE RUNNING FROM COLORADO SPRINGS TO LAMAR. THIS ACTIVITY WILL RESULT IN INCREASING MVFR CONDITIONS WITH LOCAL IFR CONDITIONS DEVELOPING. STORMS SHOULD DECREASE WITH IMPROVING CONDITIONS AGAIN BY 06Z. AFTER 06Z...AREAS OF MVFR STRATUS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS PARTS OF THE PLAINS...LASTING INTO FRIDAY MORNING. KCOS WILL HAVE THE BEST CHANCE AT STORMS TODAY...BEGINNING AROUND 21Z...AND ESPECIALLY 00Z-06Z. KPUB WILL PROBABLY BE JUST SOUTH OF THE ACTION TODAY ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE CLOSE. KALS SHOULD MISS THE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. LW && .PUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 23/23
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1154 AM MDT THU JUN 14 2012 COZ058>089-093>099-151400- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- LEADVILLE VICINITY/LAKE COUNTY BELOW 11000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- WESTERN CHAFFEE COUNTY BETWEEN 9000 AND 11000 FT- CENTRAL CHAFFEE COUNTY BELOW 9000 FT- WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST CHAFFEE COUNTY ABOVE 9000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY WEST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- SAGUACHE COUNTY EAST OF CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BELOW 10000 FT- LA GARITA MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY/EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS BELOW 10000 FT- EASTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- DEL NORTE VICINITY/NORTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- ALAMOSA VICINITY/CENTRAL SAN LUIS VALLEY BELOW 8500 FT- SOUTHERN SAN LUIS VALLEY- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 8500 AND 11000 FT- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FEET- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- NORTHWESTERN FREMONT COUNTY ABOVE 8500 FT- WESTERN/CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY BELOW 8500 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET- WET MOUNTAINS BETWEEN 6300 AND 10000 FT- WET MOUNTAINS ABOVE 10000 FT- TELLER COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE ABOVE 7500 FT/PIKES PEAK BETWEEN 7500 AND 11000 FT-PIKES PEAK ABOVE 11000 FT- CANON CITY VICINITY/EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT-PUEBLO AND VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT- 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- 1154 AM MDT THU JUN 14 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...EAST CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY MOVING ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS EARLY THIS MORNING HAS STALLED ALONG THE COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO BORDER AT THIS TIME. LATEST MODEL GUIDANCE SUGGESTS THIS BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHEAST PLAINS AND WILL BE A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL INCREASE ALONG AND NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY...WITH A ONE OR TWO SEVERE STORMS...PRODUCING ONE INCH OR LARGER HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 60 MPH. IN ADDITION...AN ISOLATED LAND SPOUT TORNADO CAN NOT BE RULED OUT ALONG THIS BOUNDARY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAS ANIMAS...BACA...BENT AND PROWERS COUNTIES. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS AND IMMEDIATE AJACENT PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE MOST COVERAGE ACROSS THE PIKES PEAK AND PALMER DIVIDE REGIONS. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 45 MPH...WITH SMALL HAIL POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...ESPECIALLY EASTERN SECTIONS...IS ANTICIPATED FROM LATER FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF BECOMING SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE PRIMARY METEOROLOGICAL THREATS BEING LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. IN ADDITION...ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE ANTICIPATED FRIDAY AND THEN AGAIN FROM SUNDAY INTO NEXT TUESDAY WITH MONDAY BEING THE HIGHEST FIRE WEATHER THREAT DAY...ESPECIALLY OVER WESTERN SECTIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT MEET REPORTING CRITERIA FOR SPOTTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE EASTERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 23/23
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 231 PM MDT THU JUN 14 2012 COZ099-142145- SPRINGFIELD VICINITY/BACA COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPRINGFIELD...WALSH 231 PM MDT THU JUN 14 2012 STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS BACA COUNTY THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. STORMS WILL FORM ALONG A WIND SHIFT BOUNDARY WHICH EXTEND NORTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE COUNTY. LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. ANY STORM THAT FORMS ON THE WIND SHIFT BOUNDARY COULD FORM A BRIEF TORNADO. HODANISH
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 185 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:35 UTC.
2 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A landspout tornado occurred over an open field and caused no damage.
A slow-moving landspout tornado occurred over a wheat field and caused no damage, although it can very close to hitting a fleeing wheat combine. Two other weaker landspout tornadoes occurred simultaneously within a mile of the aforementioned landspout tornado.
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