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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 19, 2000El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2000, 4:03 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2000, 4:03 PM MDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2000, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County El Paso County, CO

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 19, 4:10 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 55 MMonument, CO
Jun 19, 4:20 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 51 MEllicott, CO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 2000-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -60 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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.

183 
WUUS55 KPUB 192203
SVRPUB
COC041-192300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
403 PM MDT MON JUN 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS

* UNTIL 500 PM MDT

* AT 403 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AND
  WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF
  MONUMENT...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  BLACK FOREST...FALCON...SCHRIEVER AFB AROUND 415 PM MDT
  PEYTON AROUND 435 PM MDT
  ELLICOTT AROUND 440 PM MDT
  YODER AROUND 455 PM MDT
  CALHAN AROUND 500 PM MDT

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

LAT...LON 3911 10506 3876 10490 3876 10403 3954 10459

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.