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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 23, 2002Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2002, 2:51 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 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 23, 2002, 2:51 PM MDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2002, 3:45 PM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 197 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 2002-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 62 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 2002-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
62 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-236 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2280 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-34 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.

789 
WUUS55 KPUB 232051
SVRPUB
COC119-232145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
251 PM MDT TUE JUL 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TELLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT

* AT 251 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF DIVIDE...OR ABOUT 24
  MILES WEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  DIVIDE AROUND 300 PM MDT
  FLORISSANT AROUND 320 PM MDT

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 3902 10506 3911 10527 3877 10533 3878 10518

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 7:10 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningPUBChaffee3 hr

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.