Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 25, 1997Otero County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 3:58 PM MDT for Otero County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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 25, 1997, 3:58 PM MDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1997, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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
Jun 25, 5:09 PM MDTHail 0.75La Junta, 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 51 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1997-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 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
51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-211 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 6:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa65 min
Jun 24, 7:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa64 min
Jun 25, 2:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo64 min
Jun 25, 3:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas61 min
Jun 25, 3:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso62 min
Jun 25, 5:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero60 min
Jun 25, 5:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso46 min
Jun 25, 5:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.