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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 17, 2000Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2000, 4:23 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 67 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, 4:23 PM MDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2000, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 172225
SVRPUB
COC101-172330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT

* AT 423 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLENDE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES
  SOUTH OF PUEBLO...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  THE SOUTHERN PART OF PUEBLO BY 445 PM MDT...THE OPEN COUNTRY OF    
  PUEBLO COUNTY...INCLUDING I-25...SOUTH OF PUEBLO THROUGH 500       
  PM...AND AVONDALE AROUND 440 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 3816 10477 3799 10467 3806 10423 3838 10445

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, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	75 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.