Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1998, 6:57 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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 30, 1998, 6:57 PM MDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1998, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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 00:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 7:01 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Pueblo Muni Arpt, 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 00:00Z, 1.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 945 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 310059 SVRPUB COC101-310200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 657 PM MDT THU JUL 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO * UNTIL 800 PM MDT * AT 647 PM...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM OVER PUEBLO AIRPORT OR 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN PUEBLO MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE EASTERN PUEBLO THROUGH 715 PM AVONDALE BY 715 PM. AT THIS TIME...THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WARNED AREA GO TO SAFETY IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. SEVERE STORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WARNING. PGW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 6:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 59 min |
| Jul 30, 6:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Jul 30, 7:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 56 min |
| Jul 30, 8:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 58 min |
| Jul 31, 1:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Saguache | 91 min |
| Jul 31, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer | 62 min |
| Jul 31, 5:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Custer | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.