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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 22, 2000Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2000, 5:03 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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 22, 2000, 5:03 PM MDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2000, 6:05 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Las Animas County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 294 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 823 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -100 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
823 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1286 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

443 
WUUS55 KPUB 222305
SVRPUB
COC071-230005-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
503 PM MDT SAT JUL 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TRINIDAD

* UNTIL 605 PM MDT

* AT 503 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF GULNARE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...   
  WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. 

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 3755 10380 3767 10423 3741 10470 3736 10485
          3701 10513 3702 10381

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 2:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBTeller63 min
Jul 22, 5:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCuster, Huerfano56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.