Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1999, 6:00 PM MDT for Bent County, Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min. 4 reports 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
- May 16, 1999, 6:00 PM MDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1999, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 6:05 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Ft Lyon, CO | |
| May 16, 6:07 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Ft Lyon, CO | |
| May 16, 6:28 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Ft Lyon, CO | |
| May 16, 6:50 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Eads, 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 May 16, 2:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 2:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO 210 PM MDT SUN MAY 16 1999 MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IS THE CHANCE FOR PRECIP TONIGHT. LATEST WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGE INDICATES UPPER TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN U.S. MAKING RAPID EASTWARD PROGRESS THROUGH UTAH TODAY... LENDING SUPPORT TO FASTER AVN/ETA SOLUTIONS. COLD FRONT THROUGH MOST OF COLORADO AT 18Z...WITH LOW LEVEL FLOW BECOMING EASTERLY AND A SLOW INCREASE IN MOISTURE. LOOK AT 12Z ETA/15Z RUC SUGGESTS AN AXIS OF HIGHER CAPE DEVELOPING ALONG THE PALMER DIVIDE THIS AFTERNOON...WHILE A SIGNIFICANT COUPLET OF UPPER DIVERGENCEG AND 700 MB CONVERGENCE MOVES OVER THE AREA AFTER 00Z. CURRENT FORECAST WITH CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS LOOKS GOOD AND WONT CHANGE MUCH. UPPER TROUGH SWEEPS EAST OF COLORADO BY EARLY MONDAY WITH DOWNWARD MOTION AND LOWERING RH SPREADING OVER THE AREA. WILL REMOVE PRECIP CHANCES FOR ALL AREAS AS A RESULT. NICE WARMUP TUESDAY AS UPPER FLOW BECOMES ZONAL. GUIDANCE TEMPS LOOK OK THROUGH TUESDAY. MODELS HINT AT MOISTURE RETURNING THROUGH NEW MEXICO TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...WITH MRF THE ODD MAN OUT LATE IN THE WEEK CLOSING OFF AN UPPER LOW OVER THE WEST COAST. WITH ENOUGH MOISTURE COULD SEE A FEW SHOWERS OVER THE MOUNTAINS THURSDAY...BETTER CHANCE AREAWIDE FRIDAY AS WESTERN TROUGH DEEPENS. SOME DRYLINE ACTIVITY POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY ALONG THE FAR EASTERN BORDER...THOUGH APPEARS MOST ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN IN KANSAS. .PUB...NONE. PETERSEN
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 16, 4:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
449 PM MDT SUN MAY 16 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM MANZANOLA CO 1 INCH HAIL
05/16/99 OTERO
0447 PM MANZANOLA CO 2 INCH HAIL
05/16/99 OTERO
0447 PM ROCKY FORD CO 1.5 INCH HAIL
05/16/99 OTEROLocal storm report, May 16, 4:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
449 PM MDT SUN MAY 16 1999
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM MANZANOLA CO 1 INCH HAIL
05/16/99 OTERO
0447 PM MANZANOLA CO 2 INCH HAIL
05/16/99 OTERO
0447 PM ROCKY FORD CO 1.5 INCH HAIL
05/16/99 OTEROThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 60 min |
| May 16, 6:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 62 min |
| May 16, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 47 min |
Nearby
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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.