Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 6:46 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 89 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, 6:46 PM MDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 89 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), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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.
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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 1128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
591 WUUS55 KPUB 210046 SVRPUB COC071-210215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 646 PM MDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 815 PM MDT * AT 645 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF VILLE GREEN...OR ABOUT 32 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... OPEN COUNTRY OF EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY THROUGH 715 PM MDT... VILLE GREEN 725 PM MDT... KIM AROUND 735 PM MDT... 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 3763 10311 3761 10392 3702 10384 3703 10313
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 50 min |
| Jul 20, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 53 min |
| Jul 21, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 88 min |
| Jul 21, 5:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 63 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.