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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 28, 2000El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 5:44 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report 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 28, 2000, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2000, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County El Paso County, CO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 28, 5:50 PM MDT	Hail 0.88	Calhan, 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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -417 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

417 
WUUS55 KPUB 282345
SVRPUB
COC041-290045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
544 PM MDT FRI JUL 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT

* AT 544 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSH...OR ABOUT 31 MILES
  EAST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  RUSH AROUND 555 PM MDT

OTHER STRONG STORMS WHICH COULD BECOME SEVERE WERE LOCATED IN JUST 
NORTH OF THE EL PASO COUNTY LINE UP IN ELBERT AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES.

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 3904 10424 3887 10430 3863 10344 3889 10334

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	61 min
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

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.