Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2000, 7:03 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2000, 7:03 PM MDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2000, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 7:18 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Black Forest, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 200104 SVRPUB COC041-200200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 703 PM MDT WED JUL 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 800 PM MDT * AT 703 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... BLACK FOREST AND FALCON AROUND 735 PM MDT... PEYTON AROUND 745 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. 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 3905 10495 3888 10488 3885 10410 3910 10410
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 1:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Jul 20, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 55 min |
| Jul 20, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 62 min |
| Jul 20, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 90 min |
| Jul 20, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 94 min |
| Jul 20, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 53 min |
| Jul 20, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 53 min |
| Jul 20, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.