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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 19, 2002Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2002, 8:41 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 79 min. 2 reports 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 19, 2002, 8:41 PM MDT (02:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2002, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
79 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), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 19, 8:50 PM MDTHail 1Holly, CO
Jun 19, 8:52 PM MDTHail 2Holly, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 182 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2329 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2329 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-338 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 200241
SVRPUB
COC099-200400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
840 PM MDT WED JUN 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1000 PM MDT

* AT 840 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER EAST CENTRAL PROWERS COUNTY...OR ABOUT
  22 MILES WEST OF SYRACUSE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...  
  SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PROWERS COUNTY THROUGH 930 PM MDT.

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EXTENDS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM   
  WARNING THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT.

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL AROUND
ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH. 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 3795 10228 3780 10215 3815 10138 3841 10161

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 6:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers53 min
Jun 19, 7:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers66 min
Jun 19, 11:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso60 min
Jun 20, 12:20 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso55 min
Jun 20, 3:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas2 hr
Jun 20, 3:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBCuster63 min
Jun 20, 4:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBFremont66 min
Jun 20, 5:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLas Animas2 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.