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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 29, 1997Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1997, 2:32 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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 29, 1997, 2:32 PM MDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1997, 3:35 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 240 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 1997-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1693 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 281 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
1693 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
281 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
306 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.0

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The text

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

284 
WUUS1 KPUB 292034 RRA
SVRPUB
COC009-292135-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
232 PM MDT SUN JUN 29 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 335 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  PRITCHETT THROUGH 300 PM
  SPRINGFIELD BY 250 PM

* AT 230 PM RADAR SHOWED SEVERE STORMS IN THE VICINITY OF PRITCHETT
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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

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

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

AH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 2:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero60 min
Jun 29, 3:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers65 min
Jun 29, 4:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca61 min
Jun 29, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.