NWS Pueblo COSV.W 0343September 19, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Las Animas and Otero, CO
The National Weather Service office in Pueblo issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Las Animas and Otero in Colorado, which was in force until 3:45 p.m. local time on September 19. It was the 343rd severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Pueblo issued in 2026. Colorado had 122 severe thunderstorm warnings in September 2026, against 27 in an average September of 2008-2025 (Colorado's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
ExpiredWarning
In force for 31 minutes; it has expired. The agency may have replaced it with a new notice.
The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Pueblo CO
- Area
- Las Animas and Otero
- State
- Colorado
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 3:14 p.m. MDT, September 19, 2026
- Expires
- 3:45 p.m. MDT, September 19, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KPUB SV.W 0343
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado since 2008Every warning type in Colorado
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The notice as issued
SVRPUB The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... South central Otero County in southeastern Colorado... Northeastern Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado... * Until 345 PM MDT. * At 314 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles east of Delhi, or 28 miles southwest of La Junta, moving east at 20 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 south central Otero and northeastern Las Animas Counties.
What the agency told people to do
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
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The record around this notice
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado since 2008628 a year
- Every warning type in Colorado
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning: what it means, and the states that get the most20,005 a year
- NWS notices, September 20262,824 in the month
- The latest from the National Weather Service
- Warning, watch or advisory: the three NWS levels