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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 30, 2001Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2001, 3:17 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 88 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, 3:17 PM MDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2001, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 88 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), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 30, 2:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 260 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 302118
SVRPUB

COC071-302245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM MDT

* AT 317 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 35 MILES NORTH OF THATCHER...OR ABOUT 30    
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF PUEBLO...IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...NORTHWEST OF THATCHER 

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 3777 10422 3777 10445 3744 10425 3757 10403

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 1:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	54 min
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, 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.