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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 2, 2002Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 7:09 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 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
Jul 2, 2002, 7:09 PM MDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 2002, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
66 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), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 273 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2002-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 264 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2002-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 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
264 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

944 
WUUS55 KPUB 030109
SVRPUB
COC071-030215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
708 PM MDT TUE JUL 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM MDT

* AT 708 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 21 MILES NORTH OF VILLE GREEN...OR ABOUT 28
  MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  VILLE GREEN AROUND 800 PM MDT
  KIM AROUND 810 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 3762 10316 3763 10355 3711 10359 3709 10316

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 8:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso87 min
Jul 2, 10:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso55 min
Jul 3, 2:42 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBTeller108 min
Jul 3, 3:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBLarimer85 min
Jul 3, 4:48 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBTeller117 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.