Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 17, 2001Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2001, 1:53 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 97 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 17, 2001, 1:53 PM MDT (19:53 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2001, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 97 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), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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 17, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 312 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3182 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 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 171953
SVRPUB
COC071-172130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
153 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 153 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRANSON...OR ABOUT 32
  MILES NORTHEAST OF RATON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  TOBE AROUND 240 PM MDT
  VILLE GREEN AROUND 300 PM MDT
  KIM AROUND 320 PM MDT

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL NEAR ONE
INCH IN DIAMETER. IF POSSIBLE...WITHOUT RISKING YOUR SAFETY...PROTECT
PROPERTY BEFORE THE WEATHER HITS.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING. IF CAUGHT OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY
FROM WATER...METAL OBJECTS...AND ISOLATED TALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES.
IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING THE
TELEPHONE UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. IF POSSIBLE...UNPLUG ANY
UNNECESSARY APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM HITS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFCET UNTIL 700 PM.

LAT...LON 3727 10515 3700 10514 3700 10310 3735 10311

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 8:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	42 min
May 17, 12:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	52 min
May 17, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	47 min
May 17, 4:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	86 min
May 17, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	89 min
May 17, 5:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	97 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.