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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 28, 2002Bent County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2002, 6:46 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 59 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, 6:46 PM MDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2002, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bent County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 28, 1:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Aug 28, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 231 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 2002-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 233 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 2002-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -70 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
233 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-169 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2250 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.7

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The text

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

221 
WUUS55 KPUB 290046
SVRPUB
COC011-290145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT

* AT 646 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER CENTRAL BENT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 25
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  SOUTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY

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 3793 10296 3779 10310 3765 10293 3768 10277
          3784 10276

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 6:45 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBBent, Prowers4 hr
Aug 29, 5:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo86 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.