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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 28, 2002Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2002, 5:11 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 28, 2002, 5:11 PM MDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 2002, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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
Aug 28, 1:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 639 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

075 
WUUS55 KPUB 282311
SVRPUB
COC089-290015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
511 PM MDT WED AUG 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 511 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EXTREME NORTHEASTERN OTERO COUNTY...OR
  ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  NORTHEASTERN OTERO COUNTY

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 3796 10352 3796 10339 3825 10340 3825 10348

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 27, 10:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	61 min
Aug 28, 1:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	86 min
Aug 28, 1:50 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Las Animas	3 hr
Aug 28, 1:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	2 hr
Aug 28, 3:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	60 min
Aug 28, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano, Pueblo	2 hr
Aug 28, 3:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	55 min
Aug 28, 3:50 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	3 hr
Aug 28, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	2 hr
Aug 28, 4:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	60 min
Aug 28, 4:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	66 min
Aug 28, 4:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	61 min
Aug 28, 4:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	61 min
Aug 28, 5:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	87 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.