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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 17, 2000Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2000, 3:44 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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, 3:44 PM MDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2000, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 61 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), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 281 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: 165 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -327 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -7 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 172144
SVRPUB
COC071-172245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
344 PM MDT MON JUL 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM MDT.

* AT 344 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF TRINCHERA...OR ABOUT 30 MILES
  EAST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  BRANSON AROUND 350 PM MDT...
  TOBE AROUND 420 PM MDT...
  KIM AROUND 445 PM MDT.

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 3713 10412 3700 10406 3703 10325 3733 10330

The 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, 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, 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.