Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 6:29 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2000, 6:29 PM MDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 6:35 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Bartlett, CO | |
| Jun 22, 6:38 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Bartlett, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 3087 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 230030 SVRPUB COC009-230115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 629 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 715 PM MDT * AT 629 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF BARTLETT...OR ABOUT 26 MILES EAST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF... NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY BARTLETT AROUND 635 PM 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 NATmIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO.
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.