Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 10:05 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 2, 2002, 10:05 PM MDT (04:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2002, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 10:09 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Monument, 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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
488 WUUS55 KPUB 030405 SVRPUB COC041-030500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1003 PM MDT TUE JUL 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 1100 PM MDT * AT 1003 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER MONUMENT...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF... NORTHWESTERN EL PASO AND NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTIES AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL NEAR ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. IF POSSIBLE...WITHOUT RISKING YOUR SAFETY...PROTECT PROPERTY BEFORE THE WEATHER HITS. 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 3905 10500 3899 10478 3938 10455 3946 10488
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 66 min |
| Jul 2, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 87 min |
| Jul 3, 2:42 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Teller | 108 min |
| Jul 3, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Larimer | 85 min |
| Jul 3, 4:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Teller | 117 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.