Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2000, 4:21 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 2000, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2000, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 4:45 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 M | Calhan, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 212221 SVRPUB COC041-212315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 421 PM MDT MON AUG 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... * UNTIL 515 PM MDT. * AT 421 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEYTON...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... CALHAN AROUND 435 PM MDT... RAMAH AROUND 445 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 REPO/RT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3920 10462 3902 10465 3884 10348 3911 10342
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 1:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 46 min |
| 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, 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 |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.