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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 15, 2002Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2002, 3:21 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 114 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 15, 2002, 3:21 PM MDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2002, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 114 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kiowa County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 15, 12:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -367 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2182 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 152121
SVRPUB
COC061-152315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
318 PM MDT SAT JUN 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 318 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTHWESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY...OR
  ABOUT 49 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  NORTHERN KIOWA...CENTRAL KIOWA AND SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTIES

THIS STORM IS IN AN EXTREMELY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT...AND HAS THE 
POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP INTO A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WIND DRIVEN VERY 
LARGE...DAMAGING HAIL IS WILL BE POSSIBLE. 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 3878 10291 3876 10314 3830 10313 3831 10282

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, 6:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	2 hr
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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.