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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 27, 2000Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2000, 6:14 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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 27, 2000, 6:14 PM MDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2000, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 2392 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1808 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 13.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

941 
WUUS55 KPUB 280015
SVRPUB
COC009-280115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
614 PM MDT THU JUL 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 614 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AND
  WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TWO
  BUTTES...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING
  SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  SPRINGFIELD...VILAS AROUND 715 PM MDT. 

AT 613 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW 3/4 INCH HAIL IN 
TWO BUTTES. 

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 3752 10221 3764 10238 3748 10274 3728 10252

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 1:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	62 min
Jul 28, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	59 min
Jul 28, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	59 min
Jul 28, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	61 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.