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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Pueblo, CO

September 8, 2000Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2000, 1:36 PM MDT for Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 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
Sep 8, 2000, 1:36 PM MDT (19:36 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 2000, 2:30 PM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Crowley County, CO, Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 350 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 100 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2000-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 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
100 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-338 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 081940
SVRPUB
COC025-089-082030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
136 PM MDT FRI SEP 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OTERO AND SOUTHERN CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LA JUNTA

* UNTIL 230 PM MDT

* AT 136 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...11 MILES WEST OF TIMPAS...OR ABOUT 24 
  MILES WEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  TIMPAS AROUND 140 PM...
  MANZANOLA...OLNEY SPRINGS AROUND 145 PM...
  CROWLEY...ROCKY FORD AROUND 155 PM...
  SWINK AROUND 155 PM...
  LA JUNTA...ORDWAY AROUND 200 PM...

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS DAMAGING WIND 
GUSTS OVER 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. 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 3821 10403 3775 10401 3784 10343 3824j 10345
          3827 10376

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 5:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBAlamosa33 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.