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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 21, 1998El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1998, 6:49 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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 21, 1998, 6:49 PM MDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1998, 7:50 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 21, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2295 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -261 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

735 
WUUS1 KPUB 220050 RRA
SVRPUB
COC041-220150-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
649 PM MDT SUN JUN 21 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 750 PM MDT

* AT 645 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 1 MILE SOUTH OF
  FOUNTAIN...OR 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING EAST AT
  20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE I-25 BETWEEN FOUNTAIN AND THE EL
PASO COUNTY BORDER THROUGH 700 PM...THEN OVER OPEN COUNTRY EAST OF I-
25 AND FOUNTAIN THROUGH 750 PM.  AT THIS TIME... THE MOST LIKELY
SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. 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.

LW/KT

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 Jun 21, 2:55 PM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:55 PM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
255 PM MDT SUN JUN 21 1998

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH PARTS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS EVENING...

CHALLENGE TONIGHT IS DETERMINING COVERAGE/INTENSITY OF THUNDERSTORMS.
ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES TO BECOME RIPE FOR DEEP CONVECTION.  GOES SOUNDER
DATA INDICATES CAPES OF 1000 TO 2000 J/KG AND LIFTED INDICES OF -4 TO -8
ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO.  A BRIEF SHOT OF 3/4 INCH HAIL
NEAR THE BROADMOOR AT 135 PM MDT BUT NOTHING ELSE.  EXPECT MORE SEVERE
STORMS THROUGH THE EVENING ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO.  SOUTH CENTRAL
COLORADO AGAIN LOOKS TOO DRY WITH SATELLITE PICTURES SHOWING CONVECTION
TO BE VERY RESTRAINED AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATING VERY LITTLE
SURFACE MOISTURE TO WORK WITH (DEWPOINTS IN THE LOWER 20S).  ACTIVITY
OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO THUS FAR HAS BEEN NORTH OF PUEBLO.  EXPECT
ACTIVITY WILL WORK FURTHER SOUTH WITH TIME INTO BETTER MOISTURE.  RUC
INDICATES SURFACE DEWPOINTS CLIMBING TO THE 50S AND 60S ACROSS THE
SOUTHEAST PLAINS THIS EVENING.  THIS LOOKS REALISTIC BASED ON GUSTY
EAST WINDS THROUGH THE ARKANSAS VALLEY AT THIS TIME AND 60 DEGREE
DEWPOINTS JUST UPSTREAM vIN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
CONTINUES FOR EL PASO...PUEBLO...CROWLEY...KIOWA...OTERO...BENT AND
PROWERS COUNTIES UNTIL 7 PM MDT.

LW

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 21, 2:34 PM MDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
234 PM MDT SUN JUN 21 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0135 PM N   BROADMOOR                 CO    .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   ELPASO

Local storm report, Jun 21, 2:34 PM MDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
234 PM MDT SUN JUN 21 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0135 PM N   BROADMOOR                 CO    .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   ELPASO

Local storm report, Jun 21, 5:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
512 PM MDT SUN JUN 21 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0345 PM    FLORISSANT                CO    0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   TELLER

0357 PM    FALCON                    CO    0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   EL PASO

0430 PM    MONUMENT                  CO    0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   EL PASO

0435 PM    2 SW CALHAN               CO    1.00 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   EL PASO

Local storm report, Jun 21, 5:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
512 PM MDT SUN JUN 21 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0345 PM    FLORISSANT                CO    0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   TELLER

0357 PM    FALCON                    CO    0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   EL PASO

0430 PM    MONUMENT                  CO    0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   EL PASO

0435 PM    2 SW CALHAN               CO    1.00 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   EL PASO

Local storm report, Jun 21, 6:21 PM MDT, 28 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
621 PM MDT SUN JUN 21 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0614 PM    25 NNE KIM                CO    0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   LAS ANIMAS

Local storm report, Jun 21, 6:21 PM MDT, 28 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
621 PM MDT SUN JUN 21 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0614 PM    25 NNE KIM                CO    0.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/98   LAS ANIMAS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 6:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	30 min
Jun 21, 6:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	60 min
Jun 21, 6:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	62 min
Jun 21, 7:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	62 min
Jun 21, 7:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa	63 min
Jun 21, 8:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1998 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.