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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 5, 1997Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 5:09 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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
Jul 5, 1997, 5:09 PM MDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1997, 6:10 PM MDT
In force
61 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 23:08 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 5, 5:15 PM MDTHail 0.75Springfield, 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
Jul 5, 2:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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 1997-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 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 KDEN 052330 RRA
SVRPUB


COC009-060010-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
RETRANSMITTED BY DENVER CO
509 MDT SAT JUL 5 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  EASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 610PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  THROUGH STONINGTON THROUGH 530PM
  ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 160 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 287/385
   THROUGH 610PM.  

* AT 506 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM NEAR STONINGTON OR 25 MILES 
  EAST SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD.  THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.  

AT THIS TIME...THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS STORM IS
LARGE HAIL.

REMEMBER...SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TO RNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING.

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

MM

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 5, 2:09 PM MDT, 3 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 2:09 PM MDT, 3 hours before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
208 PM MDT SUN JUL 5 1997

DISCUSSION WILL BE SHORT AS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS BEING ISSUED.
BASICALLY...CAPES ARE RUNNING VERY HIGH OVER SOUTHEASTERNMOST COLORADO
COUNTIES...NEAR 3500 J/KG AND CAP IS BREAKING.  A COLD FRONT WHICH
MOVED TROUGH COS AROUND NOON AND THROUGH PUB AN HOUR LATER IS MOVING
SOUTH INTO HIGH CAPE ENVIRONMENT OVER THE SOUTHEAST...EXPECT FIREWORKS
SHORTLY...MAINLY SOUTH AND EAST OF LA JUNTA.  FURTHER WEST...FRONT
ACTUALLY DRIED OUT THE AIRMASS...SO POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE FURTHER WEST
(COS...PUB...TAD) IS LOW AT PRESENT.  THIS MAY CHANGE LATER THIS
EVENING...AS UPSLOPE CONTINUES BEHIND FRONT.  ATMOSPHERE MAY MOISTEN UP
THIS EVENING...WITH CONVECTION REFIRING ALONG THE MOUNTAINS.  SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 PM MDT FOR KIOWA...BENT...PROWERS...BACA
AND EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES.

LW

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:08 PM MDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
COZ060>081-060600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1208 PM MDT SAT JUL 5 1997

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES:

ALAMOSA      BACA        BENT          CHAFFEE        CONEJOS
COSTILLA     CROWLEY     CUSTER        EL PASO        FREMONT
HUERFANO     KIOWA       LAS ANIMAS    MINERAL        OTERO
PROWERS      PUEBLO      RIO GRANDE    SAGUACHE       TELLER

A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM COLORADO SPRINGS TO PUNKIN CENTER TO KIT
CARSON AROUND NOON SATURDAY.  THE FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHEAST
COLORADO PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON...TRIGGERING WIDELY SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS.

A FEW OF THE STORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO COULD BE SEVERE...
ESPECIALLY STORMS FORMING ALONG THE FRONT AS IT MOVES THROUGH.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATER THIS AFTERNOON IF SEVERE
STORMS DEVELOP.

LW
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:10 PM MDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
COZ060>081-060600-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1208 PM MDT SAT JUL 5 1997

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES:

ALAMOSA      BACA        BENT          CHAFFEE        CONEJOS
COSTILLA     CROWLEY     CUSTER        EL PASO        FREMONT
HUERFANO     KIOWA       LAS ANIMAS    MINERAL        OTERO
PROWERS      PUEBLO      RIO GRANDE    SAGUACHE       TELLER

A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM COLORADO SPRINGS TO PUNKIN CENTER TO KIT
CARSON AROUND NOON SATURDAY.  THE FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHEAST
COLORADO PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON...TRIGGERING WIDELY SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS.

A FEW OF THE STORMS ACRLOSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO COULD BE SEVERE...
ESPECIALLY STORMS FORMING ALONG THE FRONT AS IT MOVES THROUGH.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATER THIS AFTERNOON IF SEVERE
STORMS DEVELOP.

LW
Local storm report, Jul 5, 2:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
252 PM MDT SAT JUL 5 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE(MDT)  ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0245 PM    `2 S HOLLY                 CO   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/05/97   PROWERS
Local storm report, Jul 5, 2:52 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
252 PM MDT SAT JUL 5 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE(MDT)  ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0245 PM    2 S HOLLY                 CO   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/05/97   PROWERS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 2:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Las Animas57 min
Jul 5, 2:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers57 min
Jul 5, 2:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa61 min
Jul 5, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca63 min
Jul 5, 3:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers60 min
Jul 5, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca35 min

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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.