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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Pueblo, CO

September 8, 2000Crowley County, Otero County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2000, 7:37 PM MDT for Crowley County, Otero County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 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
Sep 8, 2000, 7:37 PM MDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 2000, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Crowley County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 8, 7:40 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 56 EBoone, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 352 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 00:00Z on 2000-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 234 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
234 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 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 090140
SVRPUB
COC025-089-101-090230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM MDT.  THIS REPLACES THE WARNING FOR EASTERN FREMONT AND
  WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES.

* AT 737 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOONE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES
  EAST OF PUEBLO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  FOWLER AROUND 755 PM MDT...
  OLNEY SPRINGS AROUND 805 PM MDT...
  CROWLEY...MANZANOLA AROUND 810 PM MDT...
  ORDWAY AROUND 820 PM MDT...
  ROCKY FORD...SUGAR CITY...AND TIMPAS AROUND 825 PM MDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM! DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. 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 3850 10426 3782 10430 3765 10340 3825 10351
          3850 10352

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBFremont, Pueblo63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.