Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2002, 4:53 PM MDT for Custer County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 67 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 10, 2002, 4:53 PM MDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2002, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Custer County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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 10, 4:55 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Beulah, 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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 1692 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
428 WUUS55 KPUB 102253 SVRPUB COC027-101-110000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 453 PM MDT WED JUL 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 600 PM MDT * AT 453 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES NORTH OF BEULAH...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... WETMORE AROUND 520 PM MDT OPEN COUNTRY IN EXTREME WESTERN PUEBLO AND EASTERN CUSTER COUNTIES 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 3806 10489 3824 10486 3824 10524 3805 10522
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 1:28 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Teller | 107 min |
| Jul 10, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 4:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 53 min |
| Jul 10, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 60 min |
| Jul 10, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 55 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.