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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 21, 2000Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2000, 1:29 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Aug 21, 2000, 1:29 PM MDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired
Aug 21, 2000, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 303 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 2000-08-21Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-08-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 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 211931
SVRPUB
COC071-212015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
129 PM MDT MON AUG 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN AND CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 215 PM MDT.

* AT 129 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF HOEHNE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  INTERSTATE 25 NORTH OF TRINIDAD AROUND 135 PM MDT...
  HOEHNE AROUND 200 PM MDT...
  MODEL AND TYRONE AROUND 215 PM MDT.

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 WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

LAT...LON 3732 10474 3716 10465 3731 10413 3754 10426

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 3:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBAlamosa, Rio Grande57 min
Aug 21, 4:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas54 min
Aug 21, 4:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso54 min
Aug 21, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas87 min
Aug 21, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBFremont27 min
Aug 21, 5:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso, Teller57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.