Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 2, 2000Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2000, 4:54 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 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
Jul 2, 2000, 4:54 PM MDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 2000, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 2000-07-02Temperature 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 2000-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
2853 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

885 
WUUS55 KPUB 022257
SVRPUB
COC099-030000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
454 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAMAR

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 454 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AND
  WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAMAR...
  MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE LAMAR AND OPEN COUNTRY
  OF...WESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTIES.

AT 452 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW 3/4 INCH HAIL IN 
LAMAR. 

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 3813 10272 3796 10261 3803 10205 3826 10206

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 2:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2000Every 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.