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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 14, 2002Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 7:30 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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, 7:30 PM MDT (01:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2002, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 2002-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 312 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 2002-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 150130
SVRPUB
COC099-150230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
729 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM MDT

* AT 729 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRISTOL...OR ABOUT 14
  MILES EAST OF LAMAR...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  HARTMAN AROUND 745 PM MDT
  HOLLY AROUND 755 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 3818 10246 3800 10245 3787 10207 3824 10206

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 6:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers56 min
Jun 14, 6:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo2 hr
Jun 15, 3:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Otero2 hr
Jun 15, 3:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa114 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.