Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 4:06 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 3, 2000, 4:06 PM MDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2000, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 4:06 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Holly, 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 2288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
264
WUUS55 KPUB 032206
SVRPUB
COC099-032300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
406 PM MDT MON JUL 3 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 500 PM MDT
* AT 404 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLLY...OR ABOUT 21 MILES
NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTY TO NEAR HOLLY BY 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 3768 10273 3764 10255 3766 10207 3813 10209The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Saguache | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 4:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Saguache | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.