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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Pueblo, CO

April 29, 2000Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2000, 10:15 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 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: Apr 29, 2000, 10:15 PM MDT (04:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2000, 11:00 PM MDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 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 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 300417
SVRPUB
COC089-300500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1015 PM MDT SAT APR 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM MDT

* AT 1015 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF CHERAW...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...LA JUNTA BY 1025 PM MDT.

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL UP TO 
TWO INCHES 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 REPORT TO THE NATIORNAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

LAT...LON 3812 10359 3767 10367 3767 10341 3820 10341

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 9:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	63 min
Apr 29, 9:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa	63 min
Apr 30, 12:34 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	61 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.