Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Pueblo, CO

Issued

Jun 12, 1999, 3:20 PM MDT (21:20 UTC)

Expired

Jun 12, 1999, 4:25 PM MDT

In force

65 min

Issued by

NWS Pueblo, CO

Area

Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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.

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.

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COC041-122225-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
320 PM MDT SAT JUN 12 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 425 PM MDT

* AT 320 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE STORM 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF
  PEYTON OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE PEYTON THROUGH 345 PM.
ELLICOT BY 400 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.

PGW/HO

NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 12, 2:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO
200 PM MDT SAT JUN 12 1999

WILL KEEP THIS VERY SHORT AS LARGE PORTION OF CWFA UNDER SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 700 PM MDT.  19Z CAPES IN EXCESS OF 2000
J/KG WITH LIS OF -6 OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY WITH
ECHOES LIGHTING UP THE 88D.

AS STATED IN MORNING DISCUSSION WILL KEEP CONTINUED THREAT OF
MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SHORT-TERM AND
INTO THE LONG TERM AS MOISTURE REMAINS AVAILABLE AND GENERALLY
HARD TO TIME SYSTEMS ROTATING ACROSS.  PERSISTENCE THE
WAY TO GO WITH TEMPERATURES ALSO.

.PUB...NONE.

In the hours before

COZ058>081-121900-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1159 AM MDT SAT JUN 12 1999

...THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
COLORADO...

...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY ONCE AGAIN BE NECESSARY TODAY...

WEAK DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE TO ROTATE THROUGH THE FLOW ALOFT
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  THESE WILL COMBINE WITH PLENTIFUL
MOISTURE AND UPSLOPE WINDS AT THE SURFACE...TO GENERATE SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON.  STORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER
THE SOUTHEASTERN MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN MOVE OFF ONTO THE
EASTERN PLAINS BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE
EVENING. THE GREATEST AREAL COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE
IN THE PIKES PEAK AND COLORADO SPRINGS AREA...AND ALONG THE RATON
MESA NEAR TRINIDAD. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG TO DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...
WILL BE THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THESE STORMS...IN ADDITION TO BRIEF
PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

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

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

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.