Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 6:55 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 2 hr. 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, 6:55 PM MDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2002, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3158 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 150055 SVRPUB COC101-150300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 653 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 900 PM MDT * AT 653 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO RESERVOIR...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF... WESTERN PUEBLO...CENTRAL PUEBLO AND EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTIES 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. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THIS STORM TO CONTINUE INTENSIFYING. AND THIS STORM COULD BECOME A DANGEROUS HAIL PRODUCING STORM. LAT...LON 3828 10483 3809 10491 3818 10412 3844 10422
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 114 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.