Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 6:01 PM MDT for Las Animas 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
- Jun 13, 1997, 6:01 PM MDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 6:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 293 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1375 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 140002 SVRPUB COC071-140050- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 601 PM MDT FRI JUN 13 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO * UNTIL 650 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HIGHWAY 109 NORTH OF KIM THROUGH 615 PM HIGHWAY 160 EAST OF KIM BY 615 PM * AT 602 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 8 MILES NORTH OF KIM MOVING EAST SOUTHEASTF AT 10 TO 15 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. MM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 7:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 9:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 10:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 11:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 11:44 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:03 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 2:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 61 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.