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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 22, 1997Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1997, 4:47 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1997, 4:47 PM MDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1997, 5:50 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 22, 4:50 PM MDTHail 1Holly, CO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 22, 4:30 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 220 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 1997-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 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 222248
SVRPUB
COC099-222350-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
447 PM MDT THU MAY 22 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 550 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  THROUGH HOLLY BY 5 PM MDT
  OPEN COUNTRY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 385 BY 515 PM

* AT 445 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS VICINITY OF HOLLY MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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

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

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

SC

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.