Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 6, 1997Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1997, 4:26 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 1997, 4:26 PM MDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1997, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 6, 2:45 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 226 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, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1997-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1997-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 062227 RRA
SVRPUB
COC009-099-062315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
426 PM MDT TUE MAY 6 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO
  SOUTHEASTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  OPEN COUNTY ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 116 EAST OF TWO BUTTES
  THROUGH 515 PM

* AT 420 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF TWO
  BUTTES MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

AT THIS TIME...THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS STORM IS
LARGE HAIL.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT.  SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS SEVERE STORM...GO TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

PW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 3:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Prowers48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.