Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2001, 1:27 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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
- Aug 31, 2001, 1:27 PM MDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2001, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 1:46 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Beulah, 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 1972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
257 WUUS55 KPUB 311928 SVRPUB COC101-312030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 127 PM MDT FRI AUG 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 230 PM MDT * AT 127 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEULAH...OR ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... BEULAH AROUND 140 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 3823 10503 3794 10504 3809 10470 3826 10490
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 12:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 56 min |
| Aug 31, 2:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 59 min |
| Aug 31, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 61 min |
| Aug 31, 4:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | El Paso | 115 min |
| Aug 31, 4:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.