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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 29, 2001Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2001, 2:15 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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 29, 2001, 2:15 PM MDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2001, 3:15 PM MDT
In force
60 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), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 278 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 769 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 233 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
769 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-225 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
908 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
419 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 292015
SVRPUB
COC071-292115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
215 PM MDT TUE MAY 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT

* AT 215 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF TOBE...OR ABOUT 47 MILES EAST
  OF RATON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  TOBE AROUND 235 PM MDT
  VILLE GREEN AROUND 310 PM MDT
  KIM AROUND 315 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 REPORTj TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

LAT...LON 3712 10379 3701 10360 3733 10325 3749 10353

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 6:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso62 min
May 28, 7:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas119 min
May 28, 7:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso97 min
May 28, 7:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso64 min
May 28, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBFremont96 min
May 28, 8:28 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas62 min
May 28, 8:30 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso60 min
May 28, 8:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso71 min
May 28, 9:18 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso57 min
May 28, 10:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas2 hr
May 28, 10:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso59 min
May 28, 11:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso27 min
May 29, 11:52 AM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers53 min
May 29, 12:13 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa62 min
May 29, 12:46 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers59 min
May 29, 1:15 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas60 min
May 29, 1:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers61 min
May 29, 2:28 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBLas Animas62 min
May 29, 2:31 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa59 min
May 29, 2:37 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBEl Paso53 min
May 29, 2:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa59 min
May 29, 3:26 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBKiowa64 min
May 29, 3:32 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBProwers58 min
May 29, 4:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent55 min
May 29, 4:19 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBent, Prowers56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2001Every 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.