Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2000, 3:52 PM MDT for Las Animas 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 21, 2000, 3:52 PM MDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2000, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 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), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -456 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
723 WUUS55 KPUB 212153 SVRPUB COC071-212245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 352 PM MDT FRI JUL 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 445 PM MDT... * AT 352 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRINCHERA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... TRINCHERA AROUND 425 PM MDT... BRANSON AROUND 440 PM MDT... AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL NEAR ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. IF POSSIBLE...WITHOUT RISKING YOUR SAFETY...PROTECT PROPERTY BEFORE THE WEATHER HITS. 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 3731 10434 3716 10446 3699 10420 3699 10361
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 20, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 63 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 |
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.