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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 7, 1997Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1997, 3:10 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 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
Jul 7, 1997, 3:10 PM MDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1997, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 219 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 1997-07-07Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1997-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 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 KPUB 072111 RRA
SVRPUB
COC101-072200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
310 PM MDT MON JUL 7 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  PUEBLO AT 310 PM
  AVONDALE AT 320 PM
  BOONE AT 320 PM
  FORT REYNOLDS AT 325PM

* AT 310 PM MDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 8 MILES EAST OF PUEBLO
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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

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

BF

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent62 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.