Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2000, 6:55 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 min. 4 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2000, 6:55 PM MDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 6:56 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Eads, CO | A long lasting supercell moved south across Kiowa, Bent, Prowers, and Baca counties over a three and a half hour time frame. The main damage was caused by high winds and large hail. The majority of the damage was around the mesocyclone, which tracked across |
| Jul 22, 7:11 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Eads, CO | The supercell cycled another tornado. The nearly continuous path was over open country. Because of the lack of trees, crops, fence line, and roads, the exact path of the tornado was difficult to determine, and no damage was discovered. |
| Jul 22, 7:15 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Sheridan Lake, CO | |
| Jul 22, 7:17 PM MDT | Hail 2.75 | Eads, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 230057 SVRPUB COC061-230200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 655 PM MDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 800 PM MDT * AT 655 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF EADS...OR ABOUT 42 MILES NORTH OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... EADS AROUND 715 PM MDT... CHIVINGTON...SHERIDAN LAKE...BRANDON AROUND 720 PM MDT... SWEETWATER RESERVOIR AROUND 730 PM MDT... NEE GRANDE RESERVOIR...NEE NOSHE RESERVOIR AROUND 735 PM MDT... QUEENS RESERVOIR AROUND 740 PM MDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WHICH COULD INTENSIFY AND PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE WARNING! GET INDOORS IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING. IF CAUGHT OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WATER...METAL OBJECTS...AND ISOLATED TALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. IF POSSIBLE...UNPLUG ANY UNNECESSARY APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM HITS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FO+RECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3867 10210 3864 10314 3828 10312 3829 10212
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 64 min |
| Jul 22, 7:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 7:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 55 min |
| Jul 22, 7:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 63 min |
| Jul 22, 8:33 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 27 min |
| Jul 22, 9:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent | 60 min |
| Jul 22, 9:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 9:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 64 min |
| Jul 22, 10:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.