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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 16, 1999Costilla County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1999, 2:45 PM MDT for Costilla County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 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 16, 1999, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1999, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

County Costilla County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 269 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: 1546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 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 16, 2:40 AM MDT, 12 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:40 AM MDT, 12 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 11:59 AM MDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

COZ058>081-161900-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1159 AM MDT WED JUN 16 1999

THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
COLORADO.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO TODAY
OR TONIGHT.

WITH EAST UPSLOPE WINDS LOCATED NEAR THE SURFACE...ABUNDANT LOW
LEVEL MOISTURE IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST TODAY ACROSS THE REGION.
MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THE
CLOUD COVER WILL LIMIT MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES...AND WITH THE
LIMITED HEATING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT PROJECTED.  SOME
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE NOTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN
PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS AND THE SAN LUIS VALLEY.
ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE REGION...SCATTERED SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH EVEN AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM
POSSIBLE.

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 11:59 AM MDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

COZ058>081-161900-

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
COLORADO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1159 AM MDT WED JUN 16 1999

THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
COLORADO.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO TODAY
OR TONIGHT.

WITH EAST UPSLOPE WINDS LOCATED NEAR THE SURFACE...ABUNDANT LOW
LEVEL MOISTURE IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST TODAY ACROSS THE REGION.
MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THE
CLOUD COVER WILL LIMIT MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES...AND WITH THE
LIMITED HEATING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT PROJECTED.  SOME
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE NOTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN
PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS AND THE SAN LUIS VALLEY.
ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE REGION...SCATTERED SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH EVEN AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM
POSSIBLE.

77

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 4:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Saguache	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1999 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.