Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2001, 5:24 PM MDT for Crowley County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 96 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 14, 2001, 5:24 PM MDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2001, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Crowley County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 142326 SVRPUB COC025-101-150100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 524 PM MDT SAT JUL 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 700 PM MDT * AT 524 PM MDT SPOTTERS IN BOONE WERE REPORTING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER. RADAR HAS SHOWED THIS STORM IS CONTINUING TO INTENSIFY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF OLNEY SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 21 MILES EAST OF PUEBLO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... OLNEY SPRINGS AROUND 545 PM MDT CROWLEY AROUND 550 PM MDT ORDWAY AROUND 600 PM MDT SUGAR CITY AROUND 610 PM MDT AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL ONE TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 70 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 RELAYB YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3837 10425 3818 10424 3813 10370 3836 10353
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 88 min |
| Jul 14, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.