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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 9, 2001Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2001, 9:05 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 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, 9:05 PM MDT (03:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2001, 9:45 PM MDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2771 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2771 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
12.0

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The text

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

332 
WUUS55 KPUB 100306
SVRPUB
COC009-100345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
905 PM MDT SAT JUN 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM MDT

* AT 905 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF TWO BUTTES...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  TWO BUTTES AROUND 910 PM MDT
  WALSH AROUND 920 PM MDT
  BARTLETT...STONINGTON AROUND 935 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 3763 10302 3704 10304 3703 10213 3760 10207

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 7:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Kiowa, Prowers55 min
Jun 10, 3:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa55 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.