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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 21, 2002Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2002, 6:34 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 86 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 21, 2002, 6:34 PM MDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2002, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
86 min
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), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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 nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 283 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2002-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2002-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
3 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 220034
SVRPUB
COC071-220200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
633 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT

* AT 633 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF STONEWALL...OR ABOUT
  27 MILES WEST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  GULNARE AROUND 740 PM MDT
  AND OPEN COUNTRY OF WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY

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 3720 10515 3707 10499 3734 10472 3737 10494

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 6:05 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBHuerfano3 hr
Jun 21, 7:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBSaguache52 min
Jun 22, 5:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo23 min

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.