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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 2001Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2001, 4:21 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 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, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Teller County, CO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 7, 4:21 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Woodland Park, 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 192 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 072221
SVRPUB
COC119-072315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN TELLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 420 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF DIVIDE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES
  WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  WOODLAND PARK AROUND 425 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.

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 3907 10516 3890 10525 3877 10508 3904 10502

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, 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, 4:27 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.