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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 19, 2001Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2001, 6:32 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 88 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 19, 2001, 6:32 PM MDT (00:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2001, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
88 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 289 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2001-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2001-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-276 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 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.

963 
WUUS55 KPUB 200032
SVRPUB
COC055-071-200200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
632 PM MDT TUE JUN 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT

* AT 632 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER AGUILAR...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  WALSENBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  TYRONE AROUND 715 PM MDT
  THATCHER AROUND 735 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 3746 10479 3730 10469 3736 10392 3774 10419

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 3:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBHuerfano, Las Animas58 min
Jun 20, 4:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso96 min
Jun 20, 5:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero67 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.