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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 4, 2002Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 6:20 AM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 55 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: Jun 4, 2002, 6:20 AM MDT (12:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 7:15 AM MDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:19 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 760 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 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.

333 
WUUS55 KPUB 041220
SVRPUB
COC061-041315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
619 AM MDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 AM MDT

* AT 619 AM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHERIDAN LAKE...OR
  ABOUT 32 MILES WEST OF TRIBUNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  SHERIDAN LAKE 625 AM MDT
  TOWNER AROUND 630 AM MDT

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL ONE TO
TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 70 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 3858 10247 3842 10237 3840 10206 3861 10205
          3862 10243

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 6:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	44 min
Jun 3, 7:02 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	El Paso	43 min
Jun 3, 7:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	48 min
Jun 3, 7:40 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Crowley, Kiowa, Otero	65 min
Jun 3, 8:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	51 min
Jun 3, 9:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	58 min
Jun 3, 9:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	55 min
Jun 3, 9:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	60 min
Jun 3, 10:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	45 min
Jun 4, 3:29 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Otero	61 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.