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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 30, 2001Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2001, 1:51 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 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 30, 2001, 1:51 PM MDT (19:51 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2001, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 54 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), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 301952
SVRPUB

COC101-302045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
151 PM MDT WED MAY 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 245 PM MDT

* AT 151 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PUEBLO RESERVOIR...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  PUEBLO AROUND 200 PM MDT

AT 148 PM A WEATHER SPOTTER SAW 3/4 INCH HAIL IN PUEBLO WEST.

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 3837 10474 3822 10486 3805 10454 3826 10438

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 1:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	61 min
May 30, 2:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	57 min
May 30, 3:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	88 min
May 30, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	57 min
May 30, 4:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	66 min
May 30, 4:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	67 min
May 30, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano	90 min
May 30, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	58 min
May 30, 5:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	85 min
May 30, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer	61 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.