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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 30, 2001Huerfano County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2001, 5:00 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Colorado. It was in force for 90 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, 5:00 PM MDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2001, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
90 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Huerfano County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 262 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2001-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2001-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 302301
SVRPUB

COC055-310030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO  
 
* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 500 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN HUERFANO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 16
  MILES NORTH OF WALSENBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO AND EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES
  HIGHWAY 10 NORTHEAST OF WALSENBURG AROUND 540 PM

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 3795 10471 3787 10491 3762 10477 3774 10454

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 1:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo54 min
May 30, 1:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso61 min
May 30, 2:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo57 min
May 30, 3:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas88 min
May 30, 4:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBFremont57 min
May 30, 4:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo66 min
May 30, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso67 min
May 30, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBFremont58 min
May 30, 5:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca85 min
May 30, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCuster61 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.