Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2001, 4:16 PM MDT for Baca County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 89 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
- May 17, 2001, 4:16 PM MDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2001, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1951 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
466 WUUS55 KPUB 172218 SVRPUB COC009-099-172345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 416 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO SOUTHERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 545 PM MDT * AT 416 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF TWO BUTTES...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... TWO BUTTES AROUND 510 PM MDT THIS STORM WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...AND WINDS TO 70 MPH. THIS STORM WILL INTERACT WITH AN OLD GUST FRONT FROM PREVIOUS STORMS. THIS STORM WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. 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 3783 10268 3760 10271 3740 10209 3779 10209
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 42 min |
| May 17, 12:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 52 min |
| May 17, 1:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 97 min |
| May 17, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 47 min |
| May 17, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 86 min |
| May 17, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 97 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.