Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 17, 2001Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2001, 5:23 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 97 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, 5:23 PM MDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2001, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 97 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 209 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 525 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -169 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1265 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 172324
SVRPUB

COC009-180100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
523 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 523 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN BACA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 27 MILES
  SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  SOUTHERN BACA AND SOUTHEASTERN BACA COUNTIES

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL THE SIZE OF SOFTBALLS. 

THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM! WIND DRIVEN VERY LARGE...DAMAGING 
HAIL IS LIKELY. GET INDOORS AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM 
WINDOWS. A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOURP REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

LAT...LON 3713 10255 3695 10254 3692 10178 3719 10179

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, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	89 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.