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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 16, 2000Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 4:20 PM MDT for Las Animas 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 16, 2000, 4:20 PM MDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2000, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 55 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), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -364 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2907 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 162223
SVRPUB
COC071-162315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
420 PM MDT SUN JUL 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 420 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED        
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 23 MILES WEST OF TOBE...OR ABOUT 30 MILES     
  EAST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. OTHER STRONG TO     
  SEVERE STORMS WERE NOTED NEAR TOBE AND KIM.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  TOBE...VILLE GREEN BETWEEN 425 AND 455 PM MDT...
  KIM BETWEEN 425 AND 455 PM MDT...

WINDS UP TO 70 MPH AND HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER WILL BE 
POSSIBLE WITH THESE CLUSTER OF STORMS.

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 3746 10400 3732 10415 3703 10370 3703 10310
          3729 10312

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 2:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	64 min
Jul 16, 3:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	54 min
Jul 16, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	61 min
Jul 16, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	40 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.