Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Pueblo, CO
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.
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 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 3:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Alamosa, Rio Grande | 57 min |
| Aug 21, 4:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 54 min |
| Aug 21, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 54 min |
| Aug 21, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 87 min |
| Aug 21, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 27 min |
| Aug 21, 5:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Teller | 57 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.