Weather Alerts For Springfield, CO

A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. # HEADLINE -------------------- A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY THROUGH 145 AM MDT # SUMMARY -------------------- At 108 AM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 13 miles southwest of Stonington, or 24 miles west of Elkhart, moving northeast at 35 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE Stonington. ISSUED AT Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at 1:08 AM MDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Pueblo CO HEADER Special Weather Statement # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 500 AM MDT for southeastern Colorado. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Springfield Vicinity/Baca County CO

# SUMMARY -------------------- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 386 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 5 AM MDT EARLY THIS MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN COLORADO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 4 COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO BACA BENT KIOWA PROWERS THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF EADS, LAMAR, LAS ANIMAS, SPRINGFIELD, AND WALSH. # DETAILS -------------------- ISSUED AT Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at 12:43 AM MDT ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO HEADER WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCHES 385/386

Closest strike: 0.28 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Slight Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO SUMMARY Severe thunderstorms capable of producing 2+ inch diameter hail, 75+ mph gusts, and isolated tornadoes are expected from the central High Plains into parts of the southern Plains tonight. Central High Plains into the southern Plains Three primary areas of thunderstorms currently exist across the region: southeast WY, east-central CO, and the TX South Plains vicinity. The northernmost cluster across southeast WY has struggled to maintain intensity, likely due to modest convective inhibition remaining in place. Even so, given the favorable low-level moisture downstream, there is still some chance for intensification. Environmental conditions support the potential for large hail up to 2 inches in diameter and isolated severe gusts with any storms that can mature into the more favorable buoyancy downstream. Large to very large hail remains possible for at least the next several hours with the discrete, splitting storms across east-central CO. Strong outflow (greater than 50 kt) remains possible as well. Additional storm development appears likely in this area amid persistent low-level moisture advection and a strengthening low-level jet. These additional storms will have similar hazards, with large to very large hail as the primary risk. Hail from 2" to 3.5" in diameter is possible. Strong gusts could become more likely with time if cold pool amalgamation results in a forward-propagating cluster. Several supercells continue across the TX South Plains. A strengthening low-level jet and steep mid-level lapse rates will help maintain the risk for large to very large hail and severe gusts with these storms for at least the next several hours. Arklatex and vicinity Ongoing cluster moving through the Arklatex will likely continue southeastward tonight, with an attendant risk for isolated damaging gusts. Some hail is possible as well, particularly late tonight/early tomorrow with any warm-air advection storms that develop in the wake of this cluster.