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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 2001Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2001, 4:43 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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, 4:43 PM MDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Las Animas County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 280 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 072243
SVRPUB
COC071-072345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT

* AT 443 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF VILLE GREEN...OR ABOUT 42
  MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  VILLE GREEN AROUND 450 PM MDT
  KIM AROUND 500 PM MDT

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 3762 10411 3704 10422 3703 10313 3761 10312

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, 4:21 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, 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.