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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 2001Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2001, 1:20 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 85 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2001, 1:20 PM MDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 7, 1:36 PM MDT	Hail 1.5	Wiley, CO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 499 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -246 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1015 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 071920
SVRPUB
COC099-072045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
120 PM MDT THU JUN 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 245 PM MDT

* AT 117 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED        
  THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF
  LAMAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHWEST PROWERS COUNTY THROUGH 245 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 3826 10272 3805 10272 3810 10230 3827 10234

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 1:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	97 min
Jun 7, 2:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	69 min
Jun 7, 2:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	92 min
Jun 7, 3:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	88 min
Jun 7, 3:44 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Bent	3 hr
Jun 7, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	76 min
Jun 7, 4:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	54 min
Jun 7, 4:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	63 min
Jun 7, 4:35 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	55 min
Jun 7, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	62 min
Jun 7, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer	90 min
Jun 7, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	61 min
Jun 7, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	60 min
Jun 7, 5:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	95 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.