Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2000, 2:21 PM MDT for El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 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 17, 2000, 2:21 PM MDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2000, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties El Paso County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 172022
SVRPUB
COC041-119-172115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
221 PM MDT MON JUL 17 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN TELLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO
NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 315 PM MDT
* AT 221 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF PALMER LAKE...OR ABOUT 28
MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30
MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
PALMER LAKE AROUND 235 PM MDT...
MONUMENT AROUND 240 PM MDT...
BLACK FOREST AROUND 300 PM MDT...
PEYTON AROUND 315 PM MDT.
AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL NEAR ONE
INCH IN DIAMETER. 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 3927 10521 3912 10522 3889 10529 3898 10489
3899 10407 3910 10408The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 24 min |
| Jul 16, 7:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.