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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 10, 1999Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1999, 3:31 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 59 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
Jun 10, 1999, 3:31 PM MDT (21:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1999, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 10, 3:50 PM MDTHail 1Trinchera, 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
Jun 10, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 293 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 1999-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 125 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1999-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
125 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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 Jun 10, 2:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 12:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
COZ058>081-101930-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1200 PM MDT THU JUN 10 1999

...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY TODAY...

A UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING WILL COMBINE WITH A MOIST AIR MASS AND WEAK EASTERLY UPSLOPE
FLOW TO GENERATE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM
OVER AND NEAR THE MOUNTAINS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...THEN MOVE OUT
INTO THE PLAINS LATER THIS AFTERNOON...GENERALLY AFTER 3 PM. THE
GREATEST AREAL COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE IN THE PIKES
PEAK AND COLORADO SPRINGS AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
THIS EVENING. STORMS WILL PERSIST WELL INTO THE EVENING OVER THE
MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT AREAS...WHILE THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS MAY SEE
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MUCH OF THE NIGHT.  LARGE HAIL AND STRONG TO
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THESE STORMS...
WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING A POSSIBILITY AS WELL.

THE RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE
FROM COLORADO SPRINGS TO PUEBLO TO JUST EAST OF TRINIDAD. A FEW
COMMUNITIES IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA ARE COLORADO SPRINGS...THE PIKES
PEAK AREA...PUEBLO...LA JUNTA...LAMAR...AND SPRINGFIELD.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO WOULD APPRECIATE ANY SEVERE
WEATHER...FLOODING OR RAINFALL REPORTS FROM ITS SPOTTERS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

PETERSEN
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 12:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
COZ058>081-101930-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1200 PM MDT THU JUN 10 1999

...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY TODAY...

A UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING WILL COMBINE WITH A MOIST AIR MASS AND WEAK EASTERLY UPSLOPE
FLOW TO GENERATE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM
OVER AND NEAR THE MOUNTAINS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...THEN MOVE OUT
INTO THE PLAINS LATER THIS AFTERNOON...GENERALLY AFTER 3 PM. THE
GREATEST AREAL COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE IN THE PIKES
PEAK AND COLORADO SPRINGS AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
THIS EVENING. STORMS WILL PERSIST WELL INTO THE EVENING OVER THE
MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT AREAS...WHILE THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS MAY SEE
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MUCH OF THE NIGHT.  LARGE HAIL AND STRONG TO
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THESE STORMS...
WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING A POSSIBILITY AS WELL.

THE RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE
FROM COLORADO SPRINGS TO PUEBLO TO JUST EAST OF TRINIDAD. A FEW
COMMUNITIES IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA ARE COLORADO SPRINGS...THE PIKES
PEAK AREA...PUEBLO...LA JUNTA...LAMAR...AND SPRINGFIELD.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO WOULD APPRECIATE ANY SEVERE
WEATHER...FLOODING OR RAINFALL REPORTS FROM ITS SPOTTERS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

PETERSEN
Local storm report, Jun 10, 3:05 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 6:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso62 min
Jun 9, 7:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso65 min
Jun 10, 2:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.