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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO

March 7, 2000Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 2:21 AM MST for Crowley County, Otero 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 7, 2000, 2:21 AM MST (09:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2000, 2:50 AM MST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crowley County, CO, Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 070923 COR
SVRPUB
COC025-089-070950-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
221 AM MST TUE MAR 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  NORTHWESTERN OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 250 AM MST

* AT 221 AM MST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANZANOLA...OR ABOUT 18
  MILES NORTHWEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  ORDWAY AROUND 225 AM MST
  SUGAR CITY AROUND 230 AM MST

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL AROUND
ONE INCH 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 ENFORCEME)NT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 1:47 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	33 min
Mar 7, 10:40 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	45 min
Mar 7, 2:01 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.