Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 9, 2002Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2002, 5:12 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 9, 2002, 5:12 PM MDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2002, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 212 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 12:00Z on 2002-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 330 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2002-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 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
330 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-360 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 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.

894 
WUUS55 KPUB 092312
SVRPUB
COC101-100115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
511 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 511 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 3 MILES EAST OF PUEBLO WEST...OR ABOUT 5
  MILES NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  PUEBLO WEST THROUGH 530 PM
  AND OPEN COUNTY IN WESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY ALONG AND SOUTH OF
  HIGHWAY 50


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 3833 10451 3847 10464 3841 10490 3809 10484

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 2:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBPueblo57 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.