Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2002, 3:05 PM MDT for Las Animas 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 20, 2002, 3:05 PM MDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2002, 5:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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 20, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 894 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 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 202105 SVRPUB COC071-202305- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 305 PM MDT THU JUN 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 505 PM MDT * AT 305 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES SOUTH OF COKEDALE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... COKEDALE AROUND 310 PM MDT TRINIDAD AROUND 320 PM MDT HOEHNE AROUND 345 PM MDT MODEL AROUND 405 PM MDT TYRONE AROUND 425 PM MDT THATCHER AROUND 450 PM MDT 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 3701 10476 3694 10456 3758 10398 3778 10427
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 6:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 53 min |
| Jun 19, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 66 min |
| Jun 19, 8:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 79 min |
| Jun 19, 11:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 12:20 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 55 min |
| Jun 20, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Custer | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Fremont | 66 min |
| Jun 20, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.