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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 20, 2002Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2002, 5:05 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 20, 2002, 5:05 PM MDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2002, 7:30 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), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 20, 6:00 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 M	Kim, CO
Jun 20, 6:05 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Kim, 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 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 279 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: 937 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -510 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 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 202305
SVRPUB
COC071-210130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
505 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 730 PM MDT

* AT 505 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOBE...OR ABOUT 36
  MILES EAST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  TOBE AROUND 535 PM MDT
  VILLE GREEN AROUND 555 PM MDT
  KIM AROUND 605 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. THIS IS A
DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WHICH COULD INTENSIFY AND PRODUCE A TORNADO
WITH LITTLE WARNING GET INDOORS AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION.

LAT...LON 3715 10400 3701 10386 3703 10312 3760 10320

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, 3:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer	63 min
Jun 20, 4:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Fremont	66 min

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