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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 22, 2000Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2000, 10:30 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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, 10:30 PM MDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2000, 11:30 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baca County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 236 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 278 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 230431
SVRPUB
COC009-230530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1030 PM MDT SAT JUL 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 1130 PM MDT

* AT 1030 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRITCHETT...OR ABOUT 17
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  WESTERN BACA AND SOUTHWESTERN BACA COUNTIES

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
OFFICEQ IN PUEBLO.

LAT...LON 3739 10267 3739 10302 3681 10311 3679 10256

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, 6:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	65 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

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.