Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2000, 10:58 AM MDT for Alamosa County, Rio Grande County, Saguache County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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 27, 2000, 10:58 AM MDT (16:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2000, 12:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Rio Grande County, CO, Saguache County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1304 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 271659 SVRPUB COC003-105-109-271800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1058 AM MDT TUE JUN 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN SAGUACHE COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO NORTHERN ALAMOSA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO EXTREME NORTHEASTERN RIO GRANDE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL NOON MDT * AT 1058 AM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF HOOPER...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTH OF ALAMOSA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... HOOPER...MOSCA AROUND 1105 AM MDT SAN LUIS LAKE AROUND 1125 AM 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 OFFERB 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 3787 10604 3768 10611 3747 10565 3771 10551
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 4:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 67 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.