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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 24, 2000Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 7:33 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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
May 24, 2000, 7:33 PM MDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 8:35 PM MDT
In force
62 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), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 233 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2000-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 76 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2000-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
76 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 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.

421 
WUUS55 KPUB 250135
SVRPUB
COC101-250235-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
733 PM MDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 835 PM MDT

* AT 733 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CEDARWOOD...OR ABOUT 21
  MILES SOUTH OF PUEBLO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY

THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM. HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER 
WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR 
NO WARNING.

LAT...LON 3810 10462 3793 10469 3776 10408 3804 10408

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas, Otero61 min
May 25, 3:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso61 min
May 25, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso29 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.