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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 10, 1989Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1989, 3:58 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1989, 3:58 PM MDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1989, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 240 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1989-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 351 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1989-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 143 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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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.