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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 16, 2000Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 6:21 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 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: Jul 16, 2000, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2000, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 24 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), 209 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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
Jul 16, 6:28 PM MDT	Tornado F0	Walsh, CO	A small tornado may have had a nearly continuous track north-northeastward over open country of eastern Baca county. There was no known damage.

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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 170021
SVRPUB
COC009-170045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT

* AT 621 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 34
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY EAST OF HIGHWAY 385 IN
  SOUTHEASTERN 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 SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

LAT...LON 3704 10237 3690 10222 3711 10188 3728 10206

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 7:23 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Baca	67 min
Jul 17, 2:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso, Teller	54 min
Jul 17, 3:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	64 min
Jul 17, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	61 min
Jul 17, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	75 min
Jul 17, 4:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	67 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.