Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2002, 3:57 PM MDT for Custer County, Huerfano County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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 29, 2002, 3:57 PM MDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2002, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Custer County, CO, Huerfano County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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 29, 4:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Rosita, 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
120 WUUS55 KPUB 292157 SVRPUB COC027-055-292300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 357 PM MDT MON JUL 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 500 PM MDT * AT 357 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES SOUTH OF ROSITA...OR ABOUT 38 MILES NORTHWEST OF WALSENBURG...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF... SOUTHERN CUSTER...NORTHWESTERN HUERFANO AND WESTERN CUSTER 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 3795 10516 3812 10525 3805 10558 3779 10540
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 64 min |
| Jul 28, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 85 min |
| Jul 29, 1:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 63 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.