Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2000, 4:15 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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
- Apr 24, 2000, 4:15 PM MDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2000, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 12:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 242218 SVRPUB COC061-242315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 415 PM MDT MON APR 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 515 PM MDT * AT 415 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHERIDAN LAKE...OR ABOUT 33 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMAR...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... SHERIDAN LAKE AROUND 420 PM OPEN COUNTY OF EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY THROUGH 515 PM 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 Y.OUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3862 10244 3844 10248 3832 10186 3854 10181
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 63 min |
| Apr 24, 3:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 61 min |
| Apr 24, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 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.