Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2001, 1:44 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 min. 2 reports 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 29, 2001, 1:44 PM MDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2001, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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 29, 2:35 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Yoder, CO | A brief touchdown occurred with no known damage. |
| May 29, 2:50 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Granada, 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 29, 12:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 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 291948 SVRPUB COC099-292045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 144 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 245 PM MDT * AT 144 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... LAMAR AROUND 215 PM MDT PROWERS COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED DAMAGE TO MOBILE HOMES AND STRUCTURES WEST OF LAMAR ON COUNTY ROAD HH. AT 140 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW THAT THE TORNADO HAD DISSIPATED. HOWEVER THE STORM MAY REDEVELOP AND COULD PRODUCE ADDITIONAL TORNADOS AT ANY TIME. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN PROWERS COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER. 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 REELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. & LAT...LON 3809 10273 3795 10261 3826 10207 3826 10257
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 62 min |
| May 28, 7:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 119 min |
| May 28, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 97 min |
| May 28, 7:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 64 min |
| May 28, 8:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 96 min |
| May 28, 8:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 62 min |
| May 28, 8:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| May 28, 8:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 71 min |
| May 28, 9:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 57 min |
| May 28, 10:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 2 hr |
| May 28, 10:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 59 min |
| May 28, 11:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 27 min |
| May 29, 11:52 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 53 min |
| May 29, 12:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 62 min |
| May 29, 12:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 59 min |
| May 29, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 60 min |
| May 29, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 60 min |
| May 29, 2:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 62 min |
| May 29, 2:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 59 min |
| May 29, 2:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 53 min |
| May 29, 2:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 59 min |
| May 29, 3:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 64 min |
| May 29, 3:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Prowers | 58 min |
| May 29, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 55 min |
| May 29, 4:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 56 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.