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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 11, 2000Las Animas County, Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2000, 2:29 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 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
Jun 11, 2000, 2:29 PM MDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2000, 3:25 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 249 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 107 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-279 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 112030
SVRPUB
COC071-089-112125-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
229 PM MDT SUN JUN 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  SOUTHEASTERN OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 325 PM MDT

* AT 226 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTH OF HIGBEE...OR ABOUT 27 MILES
  SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  HIGBEE AROUND 250 PM MDT
  HIGHWAY 109 SOUTH OF HIGBEE THROUGH 300 PM
  OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHEAST LAS ANIMAS COUNTY WEST OF HIGHWAY 109    
  THROUGH 245 PM

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 HLITS.

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 3760 10369 3747 10353 3766 10340 3790 10341

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 12:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas58 min
Jun 11, 5:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca29 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.