Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 24, 1997El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1997, 4:30 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 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
Jun 24, 1997, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1997, 5:35 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 24, 4:31 PM MDTHail 0.75Black Forest, 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 23 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 1997-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 514 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
514 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 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.

069 
WUUS1 KPUB 242232 RRA
SVRPUB
COC041-242335-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
430 PM MDT TUE JUN 24 1997

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

* UNTIL 535 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  BLACK FOREST THROUGH 440 PM
  PEYTON BY 450 PM

* AT 430 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 9 MILES WEST OF PEYTON MOVING
  EAST AT 15 MPH.

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



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

KT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 7:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso60 min
Jun 23, 7:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso63 min
Jun 24, 3:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso62 min
Jun 24, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.