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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 29, 2002Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2002, 6:32 PM MDT for Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 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 29, 2002, 6:32 PM MDT (00:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2002, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
58 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), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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 00:00Z, 0.5 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2002-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 199 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2002-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 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
199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
4032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.7

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The text

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

991 
WUUS55 KPUB 300032
SVRPUB
COC119-300130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
629 PM MDT MON JUL 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM MDT.

* AT 629 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER DIVIDE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF
  COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...  
  DIVIDE...FLORISSANT...AND HIGHWAYS 24 AND 67 IN THE VICINITY OF DIVIDE
  AND FLORISSANT.

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 3910 10531 3897 10530 3883 10530 3875 10515
          3885 10509 3907 10503

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.