Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2000, 5:20 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 55 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 11, 2000, 5:20 PM MDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2000, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Otero County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1390 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 112321 SVRPUB COC089-120015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 520 PM MDT TUE JUL 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LA JUNTA * UNTIL 615 PM MDT * AT 520 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF MANZANOLA...OR ABOUT 19 MILES WEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... ROCKY FORD AROUND 540 PM MDT... SWINK AROUND 605 PM MDT... LA JUNTA AROUND 615 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. HEAVY RAIN WILL FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCHx AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS WATER-COVERED ROADS BECAUSE THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. LAT...LON 3812 10388 3801 10402 3773 10358 3796 10343
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 3:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso, Pueblo | 67 min |
| Jul 11, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 63 min |
| Jul 11, 5:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 67 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.