Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2002, 3:52 PM MDT for Custer County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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 20, 2002, 3:52 PM MDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2002, 4:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Custer County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 275 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 202152 SVRPUB COC027-202255- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 352 PM MDT THU JUN 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 455 PM MDT * AT 352 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES SOUTH OF SILVER CLIFF...OR ABOUT 44 MILES NORTHWEST OF WALSENBURG...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... SILVER CLIFF...ROSITA AROUND 400 PM MDT WESTCLIFFE AROUND 405 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. 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 3797 10552 3796 10529 3825 10519 3823 10554
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, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 2 hr |
| 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.