Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2001, 3:32 PM MDT for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2001, 3:32 PM MDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2001, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 3:39 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Walsenburg, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 3:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 260 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1065 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 202133 SVRPUB COC055-071-202230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 332 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 430 PM MDT * AT 332 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF WALSENBURG...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF... NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS AND NORTHEASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES 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 NA TIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3786 10467 3763 10454 3765 10410 3779 10439
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 88 min |
| Jun 20, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 96 min |
| Jun 20, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 67 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.