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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 4:51 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 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 25, 2000, 4:51 PM MDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 5:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 12:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
711 WUUS55 KPUB 252254 SVRPUB COC041-252320- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 451 PM MDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 520 PM MDT * AT 451 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY... OR ABOUT 37 EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF... RUSH THROUGH 515PM AND EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL NEAR ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. IF POSSIBLE...WITHOUT RISKING YOUR SAFETY...PROTECT PROPERTY BEFORE THE WEATHER HITS. 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 3894 10406 3876 10404 3878 10333 3901 10335
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero | 61 min |
| May 25, 3:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 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.