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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 8:42 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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, 8:42 PM MDT (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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.
810 WUUS55 KPUB 210245 SVRPUB COC061-210345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 842 PM MDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 945 PM MDT * AT 842 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 4 MILES NORTH OF EADS...OR ABOUT 33 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT NOTED. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... EADS THROUGH 945 PM MDT... CHIVINGTON THROUGH 945 PM MDT... BRANDON THROUGH 945 PM MDT... SHERIDAN LAKE THROUGH 945 PM MDT... HASWELL THROUGH 945 PM MDT... AT 840 PM MDT LOCAL OFFICIALS SAW 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL AT EADS. 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 WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. & LAT...LON 3859 10315 3830 10314 3830 10209 3860 10209
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, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 89 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.