Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2000, 4:15 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 75 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2000, 4:15 PM MDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2000, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 75 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 172216 SVRPUB COC041-172330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 415 PM MDT MON JUL 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... * UNTIL 530 PM MDT. * AT 415 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF SCHRIEVER AFB...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... CALHAN...ELLICOTT AROUND 425 PM MDT... YODER AROUND 445 PM MDT... TRUCKTON AROUND 500 PM MDT... RUSH AROUND 510 PM MDT... OTHER STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WERE NOTED EXTENDING FROM NEAR CALHAN...TO THE COLORADO SPRINGS AIRPORT...TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF FORT CARSON. 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 3911 10438 3855 10490 3853 10408 3911 10408
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, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 61 min |
| Jul 17, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.