Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 5:00 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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, 5:00 PM MDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1997, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Otero County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:09 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | La 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 252300 RRA SVRPUB COC089-260000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 500 PM MDT WED JUN 25 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO * UNTIL 600 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED TIMPAS THROUGH 515 PM ALONG HIGHWAY 350 FROM TIMPAS TO LA JUNTA THROUGH 600 PM * AT 455 PM RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. AT THIS TIME...THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER WITH THESE STORMS IS LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING. IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS SEVERE STORM...GO TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. PE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 6:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 7:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 61 min |
| Jun 25, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero, Pueblo | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 62 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.