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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 2001Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2001, 2:28 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 92 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: Jun 7, 2001, 2:28 PM MDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 92 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), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 267 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 072028
SVRPUB
COC071-072200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT

* AT 227 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DELHI...OR ABOUT 33 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  DELHI AROUND 305 PM MDT
  THATCHER AROUND 325 PM MDT
  TYRONE AROUND 400 PM MDT

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL ONE TO
TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER. 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 SERVI*CE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

LAT...LON 3749 10372 3764 10377 3764 10431 3741 10426

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 1:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	85 min
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, 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

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.