Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2000, 2:59 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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 31, 2000, 2:59 PM MDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2000, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 371 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 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 312101 SVRPUB COC101-312200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 259 PM MDT THU AUG 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 400 PM MDT... * AT 259 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR...SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF CEDARWOOD...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF... SOUTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY... FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING. IF CAUGHT OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WATER...METAL OBJECTS...AND ISOLATED TALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. IF POSSIBLE...UNPLUG ANY UNNECESSARY APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM HITS. 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 kENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3814 10469 3791 10473 3783 10415 3810 10412
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 61 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.