Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2000, 3:27 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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
- Apr 24, 2000, 3:27 PM MDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2000, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 3:37 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | Eads, CO | |
| Apr 24, 3:45 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Kit Carson, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 12:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 242129 SVRPUB COC061-242230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 327 PM MDT MON APR 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 430 PM MDT * AT 327 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES NORTH OF EADS...OR ABOUT 46 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... EADS AROUND 345 PM MDT CHIVINGTON AROUND 400 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. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOS WITH LITTLE WARNING. LAT...LON 3880 10284 3869 10302 3828 10264 3829 10230
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 3:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 61 min |
| Apr 24, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 60 min |
| Apr 24, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
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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.