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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO

March 7, 2000Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 1:47 AM MST for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 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
Mar 7, 2000, 1:47 AM MST (08:47 UTC)
Expired
Mar 7, 2000, 2:20 AM MST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:47 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 00:00Z on 2000-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 070849
SVRPUB
COC089-070920-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
147 AM MST TUE MAR 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 220 AM MST

* AT 147 AM MST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCKY FORD...OR ABOUT 32
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  MANZANOLA...ROCKY FORD...SWINK AROUND 215 AM MST

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL AROUND
ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH. GET INDOORS
AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE
BEST PROTECTION.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEAT9HER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 7, 2:21 AM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley, Otero29 min
Mar 7, 10:40 AM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca45 min
Mar 7, 2:01 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Prowers59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.