Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Pueblo, CO
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.
- 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
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.
| 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, 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, 5:02 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
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.