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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 3, 2001Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2001, 8:11 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 94 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
Jul 3, 2001, 8:11 PM MDT (02:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2001, 9:45 PM MDT
In force
94 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 281 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2001-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 112 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2001-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -79 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-176 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 040213
SVRPUB

COC071-040345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
811 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 945 PM MDT

* AT 811 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 29 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIM
  TO 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF AGUILAR...OR ABOUT ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD TO 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  WALSENBURG...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE 
  TRINIDAD AROUND 900 PM MDT
  OPEN COUNTRY OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY THROUGH 930 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 NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

LAT...LON 3761 10310 3763 10448 3703 10502 3703 10315

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 6:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa96 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.