Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 4:36 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2002, 4:36 PM MDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2002, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 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), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:40 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Timpas, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 1667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 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 142236 SVRPUB COC089-142330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 436 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 530 PM MDT... * AT 436 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF TIMPAS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... SWINK AROUND 445 PM MDT LA JUNTA...HIGBEE AROUND 450 PM MDT 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 3793 10384 3768 10381 3769 10339 3814 10342
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 86 min |
| Jun 14, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 112 min |
| Jun 14, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 60 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.