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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 3, 2002Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2002, 2:56 PM MDT for Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 79 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 3, 2002, 2:56 PM MDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2002, 4:15 PM MDT
In force: 79 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Crowley County, CO, Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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
Jun 3, 3:13 PM MDT	Hail 1	Fowler, CO
Jun 3, 3:55 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Sugar City, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 3, 2:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 263 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.

063 
WUUS55 KPUB 032056
SVRPUB
COC025-089-032215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
256 PM MDT MON JUN 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 415 PM MDT

* AT 256 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOWLER...OR ABOUT 31
  MILES WEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  FOWLER AROUND 300 PM MDT
  OLNEY SPRINGS...MANZANOLA AROUND 315 PM MDT
  CROWLEY AROUND 320 PM MDT
  ROCKY FORD AROUND 325 PM MDT
  ORDWAY AROUND 335 PM MDT
  SUGAR CITY AROUND 345 PM MDT
  CHERAW AROUND 355 PM MDT

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL ONE TO
TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 70 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 3826 10405 3797 10405 3808 10348 3849 10350

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 1:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	59 min
Jun 3, 2:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	89 min
Jun 3, 2:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Pueblo	64 min
Jun 3, 3:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent	43 min
Jun 3, 4:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	84 min
Jun 3, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	66 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.