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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 20, 2001Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2001, 7:56 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 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: May 20, 2001, 7:56 PM MDT (01:56 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2001, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 49 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), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 210157
SVRPUB

COC009-210245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
756 PM MDT SUN MAY 20 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 845 PM MDT

* AT 756 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF VILAS...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  EAST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  STONINGTON...CAMPO AROUND 805 PM MDT
  SPRINGFIELD AROUND 805 PM MDT
  PRITCHETT AROUND 810 PM

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS STRONG WIND 
GUSTS OF 60 TO 80 MPH. 

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 3763 10207 3763 10306 3702 10307 3701 10206

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 20, 6:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	55 min
May 20, 6:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	29 min
May 20, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	64 min
May 20, 7:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	45 min
May 20, 7:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	66 min
May 20, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	45 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.