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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 5, 2000Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2000, 8:02 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 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
Aug 5, 2000, 8:02 PM MDT (02:02 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2000, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
58 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), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 248 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2872 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2872 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

352 
WUUS55 KPUB 060202
SVRPUB
COC009-060300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
802 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM MDT

* AT 802 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF PRITCHETT...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  SPRINGFIELD AROUND 840 PM MDT
  VILAS AROUND 900 PM MDT

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 3756 10291 3739 10296 3725 10237 3751 10230

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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.