Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2002, 11:19 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Otero 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2002, 11:19 PM MDT (05:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2002, 12:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 22, 2:07 PM MDT, 9 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:07 PM MDT, 9 hours 12 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 207 PM MDT THU AUG 22 2002 ...MAIN CONCERNS ARE CONVECTIVE WRT LOCATIONS/DURATIONS NEXT FEW DAYS... CURRENTLY...WEAK SURFACE LOW OVER SW KS EEPING WEAK SFC FLOW OVER SE CO ATTM. RADAR SHOWING A FEW STORMS TRYING TO GET ORGANIZED OVER FAR SE CO. SHEAR (35 KNTS) SUFFICIENT FOR A BIT OF ROTATION. DEWS IN THE 50S WITH ABOUT 500-750 J/KG CAPE AT 19Z. SHORT TERM...JET APPROACHING AREA FROM SW. SHEAR WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE DURING THE LATE AFTERNNOON/EVENING HOURS. WITH SUFFICIENT SHEAR AND CAPE IN PLACE...EXPECT 0NE OR TWO SVR STORMS LATER TODAY WITH MAIN THREAT HAIL AS LLVL FLOW QUITE WEAK AND T/TD SPREADS 30F OR GREATER. BEST CHANCE OF STONGER STORMS FARTHER EAST WITH BETTER MOISTURE THIS AREA. STORMS WILL END LATE OUT FAR EAST. DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...JET WILL BE INFRINGING OVER THE REGION...WITH MID/UPPER FLOW GRADUALLY TRANSISTIONING FROM SW TO NW THROUGH LATE SATURDAY. MID LVL MOISTURE OVER REGION TODAY WILL GRADUALLY BE ADVECTED EAST WITH TIME...WITH PRECIP CHANCES DECREASING WITH TIME...ESPECIALLY OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN. MORE SPECIFICALLY... FRIDAY...BEST MOISTURE OVER PLAINS WITH S FLOW OUT EAST. LEFT 10 POP MTNS...20 POP ADJACENT PLAINS...AND THEN 30 FAR EAST TOMORROW EVENING. GENERALY PC SKIES OVER REGION. SATURDAY...MTNS AND ADJ PLAINS DRY OUT...WITH NO POPS MTNS/ADJ PLAINS. WEAK FRONT FCST TO COME DOWN FOMR NE ON THIS DAY AS FLOW ALOFT HAS GONE NW. FOR THIS REASON LEFT SLIGHT POPS FAR E PLAINS ON THIS DATE. SUNDAY...DRIED OUT ALL AREAS. THIS MAY BE A LITTLE AGGRESSIVE ON THE DRY SIDE AS AVN HINTS AT WEAK UPSLOPE LATE...BUT BELIEVE INSUFFICIENT INSTABILITY IN PLACE FOR MENTIONING POSS ATTM. FOR REMAINDER OF FCST...RIDGE TO REMAIN TO OUR IMMEDIATE S. THIS SHOULD TEND TO KEEP MTNS ON DRIER SIDE W/ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE OF POPS EAST. OVERALL...NO SIGNIF WX ANTICIAPTED DURING THIS TIME FRAME. HODANISH .PUB...NONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 3:20 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 55 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.