Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2001, 3:14 PM MDT for Fremont County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2001, 3:14 PM MDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2001, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Fremont County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 3:45 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Florence, CO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 229 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 132116 SVRPUB COC043-132215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 314 PM MDT FRI JUL 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 415 PM MDT * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM... CANON CITY UNTIL BETWEEN 315 PM AND 400 PM PM PENROSE BY 325 PM FLORENCE BY 330 PM AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL AROUND 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.j THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3832 10529 3831 10496 3865 10494 3864 10528
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 56 min |
| Jul 13, 2:50 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Fremont | 115 min |
| Jul 13, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 94 min |
| Jul 13, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.