Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1999, 2:42 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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
- Jul 2, 1999, 2:42 PM MDT (20:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1999, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 3907 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
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 Jul 1, 2:50 PM MDT, 23 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 2:50 PM MDT, 23 hours 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 12:07 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
COZ058>081-021930- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1207 PM MDT FRI JUL 2 1999 .THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO... ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NECESSARY TODAY... ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND EASTERN PLAINS. HOWEVER...SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT WILL CAUSE WIND PROFILES TO BE LESS FAVORABLE FOR PRODUCING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...WITH DRIER AIR AT THE LOW LEVELS...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BRIEF PERIODS OF SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 12:07 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
COZ058>081-021930- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1207 PM MDT FRI JUL 2 1999 .THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO... ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NECESSARY TODAY... ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND EASTERN PLAINS. HOWEVER...SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT WILL CAUSE WIND PROFILES TO BE LESS FAVORABLE FOR PRODUCING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...WITH DRIER AIR AT THE LOW LEVELS...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BRIEF PERIODS OF SMALL HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 6:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 4:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.