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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 21, 2001Huerfano County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2001, 1:18 AM MDT for Huerfano County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 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 21, 2001, 1:18 AM MDT (07:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2001, 2:15 AM MDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Huerfano County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 272 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.

641 
WUUS55 KPUB 210720
SVRPUB
COC055-210815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
118 AM MDT THU JUN 21 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 AM MDT

* AT 118 AM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF FARISITA...OR ABOUT 17
  MILES NORTH OF WALSENBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  WALSENBURG AROUND 210 AM MDT

AT 114 AM MDT...A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW 1 INCH 
DIAMETER HAIL 3 MILES SOUTH OF COLORADO CITY.

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL NEAR ONE 
INCH IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS. 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 3788 10466 3786 10520 3743 10495 3771 10449

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, 9:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont, Pueblo	64 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, 5:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2001 Every 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.