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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 11, 2000Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2000, 5:38 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 67 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, 5:38 PM MDT (23:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2000, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 288 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -286 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2144 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 112341
SVRPUB
COC071-120045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
538 PM MDT TUE JUL 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT

* AT 538 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF TOBE...OR ABOUT 40 MILES EAST
  OF TRINIDAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  TOBE AROUND 550 PM MDT
  VILLE GREEN AROUND 610 PM MDT
  KIM AROUND 620 PM MDT

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL NEAR ONE 
INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH OR MORE.  IF 
POSSIBLE...WITHOUT RISKING YOUR SAFETY...PROTECT PROPERTY BEFORE THE 
WEATHER HITS.

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 3724 10397 3701 10393 3702 10311 3763 10309
          3763 10379

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, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2000 Every 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.