Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 5:37 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 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 20, 2000, 5:37 PM MDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 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), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 1:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 202336
SVRPUB
COC011-089-101-210030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
537 PM MDT THU JUL 20 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LA JUNTA...
SOUTHEASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 630 PM MDT
* AT 532 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE
OF SEVERE STORMS FROM NORTHERN BENT COUNTY TO NEAR MANZANOLA IN
OTERO COUNTY TO SOUTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
HASTY...LAS ANIMAS...ROCKY FORD...LA JUNTA...CHERAW... AND TIMPAS.
THESE ARE DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS! 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 3824 10345 3786 10446 3768 10393 3763 10272
3826 10271The 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, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 94 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.