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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2000, 3:39 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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
- Apr 24, 2000, 3:39 PM MDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2000, 4:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Baca County, CO
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 211 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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, 4:25 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Campo, 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1226 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -119 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.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 242141 SVRPUB COC009-242240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 339 PM MDT MON APR 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 440 PM MDT * AT 339 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMPO...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTY 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 ASERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOS WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. LAT...LON 3719 10268 3704 10280 3671 10228 3694 10209
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 63 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 |
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.