Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2000, 9:07 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2000, 9:07 PM MDT (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2000, 10:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 9:48 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Haswell, CO | |
| Apr 29, 10:08 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Haswell, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 9:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 684 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 300309 SVRPUB COC061-300410- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 907 PM MDT SAT APR 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 1010 PM MDT * AT 907 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARLINGTON...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... ARLINGTON AROUND 915 PM MDT AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL NEAR ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. IF POSSIBLE...WITHOUT RISKING YOUR SAFETY...PROTECT PROPERTY BEFORE THE WEATHER HITS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. LAT.R..LON 3847 10348 3830 10342 3830 10294 3853 10301
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 9:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 63 min |
| Apr 29, 10:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 12:34 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 61 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.