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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 10, 2002Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2002, 5:35 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 55 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 10, 2002, 5:35 PM MDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2002, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 199 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

559 
WUUS55 KPUB 102335
SVRPUB
COC101-110030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
534 PM MDT WED JUL 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 534 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF PUEBLO DEPOT...OR 
  ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF PUEBLO...MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 10
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  EAST PUEBLO AROUND 540 PM MDT
  PUEBLO DEPOT AROUND 550 PM MDT
  AVONDALE AROUND 610 PM MDT
  BOONE AROUND 615 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 3848 10433 3837 10459 3805 10440 3812 10407

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, 4:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer, Pueblo	67 min
Jul 10, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2002 Every 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.