Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 5:11 PM MDT for Bent 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
- Jun 14, 2002, 5:11 PM MDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2002, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 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), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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 142311 SVRPUB COC011-150015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 510 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 615 PM MDT * AT 510 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 17 MILES SOUTH OF LAS ANIMAS...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR AROUND 520 PM MDT HASTY AROUND 525 PM MDT CADDOA AROUND 530 PM MDT MCCLAVE AROUND 535 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 3815 10338 3766 10337 3766 10274 3825 10278
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, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 112 min |
| Jun 14, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2002Every 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.