Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 24, 2001Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2001, 7:52 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 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 24, 2001, 7:52 PM MDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 2001, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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 24, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 352 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2380 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 250202 CCA
SVRPUB

COC061-250245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
752 PM MDT TUE JUL 24 2001...CORRECTED FOR LOCATION DESCRIPTION

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 845 PM MDT

* AT 752 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOWNER...OR ABOUT 40 MILES
  EAST OF EADS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  TOWNER AROUND 800 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 RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL QWEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

LAT...LON 3861 10227 3827 10227 3827 10204 3862 10205

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	59 min
Jul 25, 5:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	56 min
Jul 25, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2001 Every 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.