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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 9, 2001Saguache County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2001, 2:36 PM MDT for Saguache County, Colorado. It was in force for 69 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 9, 2001, 2:36 PM MDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2001, 3:45 PM MDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Saguache County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 238 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2001-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2001-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-386 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

299 
WUUS55 KPUB 092041 CCA
SVRPUB
COC109-092130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED SPELLING
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
236 PM MDT SAT JUN 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SAGUACHE COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT

* AT 236 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL SAGUACHE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 41
  MILES NORTHWEST OF ALAMOSA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...  
  HIGHWAY 285 10 MILES SOUTH OF SAGUACHE AROUND 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 3808 10630 3794 10643 3775 10613 3792 10592

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBFremont62 min
Jun 9, 5:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero72 min
Jun 9, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2001Every 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.