Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2001, 5:22 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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
- Sep 17, 2001, 5:22 PM MDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2001, 6:25 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), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 434 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
152 WUUS55 KPUB 172324 SVRPUB COC101-180025- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 522 PM MDT MON SEP 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 625 PM MDT * AT 522 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLORADO CITY...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... CEDARWOOD AROUND 555 PM MDT AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL AROUND ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 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 WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3810 10486 3793 10496 3784 10427 3791 10426
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 60 min |
| Sep 17, 3:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Pueblo | 57 min |
| Sep 17, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 65 min |
| Sep 17, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.