Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 5:11 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 94 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, 5:11 PM MDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Otero County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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, 5:40 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Thatcher, 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 202310 SVRPUB COC089-210045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 511 PM MDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 508 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF TIMPAS...OR ABOUT 29 MILES WEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHWEST OTERO COUNTY THROUGH 645 PM MDT... TIMPAS AROUND 545 PM MDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM! VERY LARGE...DAMAGING HAIL IS LIKELY. GET INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3808 10406 3790 10407 3764 10405 3765 10338
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, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 90 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.