Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 13, 1997El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 11:36 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 59 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, 11:36 PM MDT (05:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1997, 12:35 AM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:39 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1997-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 42 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1997-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPUB 140536 RRA
SVRPUB
COC041-140635-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1136 PM MDT FRI JUN 13 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 1235 AM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS EFFECTED
  HIGHWAY 94 BETWEEN THE COLORADO SPRINGS AIRPORT AND ELLECOTT
  THROUGH 1210 AM...ELLECOTT BY 1150 PM.

* AT 1135 PM RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS IN EASTERN COLORADO SPRINGS
  MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

AT THIS TIME...THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER WITH THESE STORMS IS
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.

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

JKH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 6:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas49 min
Jun 13, 6:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso36 min
Jun 13, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso32 min
Jun 13, 7:05 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso35 min
Jun 13, 8:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso45 min
Jun 13, 9:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso46 min
Jun 13, 10:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso60 min
Jun 13, 11:44 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBEl Paso2 hr
Jun 14, 1:03 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso62 min
Jun 14, 2:15 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso55 min
Jun 14, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca61 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.