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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 7, 2001Bent County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2001, 5:30 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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, 5:30 PM MDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bent County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 207 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 072330 RRA
SVRPUB
COC011-080030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 529 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR...OR
  ABOUT 24 MILES WEST OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  MCCLAVE AROUND 535 PM MDT

THIS REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING WHICH HAD BEEN IN EFFECT 
UNTIL 530 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.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WATER...ESPECIALLY RESERVOIRS...CAN BE VERY
DANGEROUS...PRODUCING DEADLY LIGHTNING...3/4 INCH OR LARGER
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WELL OVER 60 MPH...WHICH CAN
CAPSIZE AND SINK BOATS. BOATERS AND THOSE WHO ARE FISHING MUST GO TO
SHORE AND FIND SHELTER ON LAND BEFORE SE-VERE STORMS ARRIVE.

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 3824 10338 3766 10338 3767 10273 3824 10274

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, 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, 5:40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.