Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 4:45 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 90 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 20, 2000, 4:45 PM MDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 90 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), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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 20, 4:45 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Trinchera, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 1:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 2817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 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 202245 SVRPUB COC071-210015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 445 PM MDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 615 PM MDT * AT 443 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRINCHERA...OR ABOUT 32 MILES EAST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... TOBE AROUND 510 PM MDT... VILLE GREEN AROUND 520 PM MDT... KIM AROUND 540 PM MDT... OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 160 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 389 THROUGH 615 PM MDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM! WIND DRIVEN VERY LARGE...DAMAGING HAIL IS LIKELY. GET INDOORS AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION. REPORT SEVERE WEATKHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3732 10404 3701 10407 3703 10311 3733 10310
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 7:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 57 min |
| 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, 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.