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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 20, 2001Fremont County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2001, 9:11 PM MDT for Fremont County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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 20, 2001, 9:11 PM MDT (03:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2001, 10:15 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Fremont County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

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, 9:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 225 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 484 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 210312
SVRPUB
COC043-101-210415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
911 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO
  WEST CENTRAL PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 1015 PM MDT

* AT 911 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF PUEBLO RESERVOIR...OR ABOUT 21
  MILES WEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  PUEBLO RESERVOIR AROUND 1000 PM MDT
  PUEBLO WEST AROUND 1005 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 NEARESTX LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

LAT...LON 3842 10509 3828 10512 3817 10470 3841 10467

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 7:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	90 min
Jun 20, 8:49 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	56 min
Jun 20, 9:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	92 min
Jun 21, 1:02 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	58 min
Jun 21, 1:18 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano	57 min
Jun 21, 5:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.