Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2001, 5:14 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 91 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
- May 28, 2001, 5:14 PM MDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2001, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 5:38 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Trinidad, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 300 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
- 3127 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 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 282315 SVRPUB COC071-290045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 514 PM MDT MON MAY 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 514 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF TRINIDAD...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF RATON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... HOEHNE AROUND 550 PM MDT TRINCHERA...MODEL AROUND 610 PM MDT BRANSON AROUND 630 PM MDT TYRONE AROUND 635 PM MDT AT 4 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW 1 INCH HAIL 3 MILES WEST OF RATON PASS. 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 3717 10462 3691 10448 3701 10381 3?765 10394
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 56 min |
| May 28, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 60 min |
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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.