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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 12, 2001Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2001, 6:19 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 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 12, 2001, 6:19 PM MDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 2001, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baca County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2300 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 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
2300 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 130021
SVRPUB

COC009-130115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
619 PM MDT THU JUL 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT.

* AT 619 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTH AT
  10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...  
  SPRINGFIELD THROUGH 645 PM.
  OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHEASTERN BACA COUNTY THROUGH 715 PM.

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL NEAR ONE
INCH IN DIAMETER. 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 3734 10276 3724 10231 3762 10208 3762 10263

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 2:50 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBFremont115 min
Jul 13, 3:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBFremont61 min
Jul 13, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo94 min
Jul 13, 5:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCrowley, Otero54 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.