Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2002, 7:04 PM MDT for Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 86 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
- Aug 9, 2002, 7:04 PM MDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2002, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 86 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), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1040 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2309 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
137 WUUS55 KPUB 100104 SVRPUB COC025-089-100230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 704 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 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 830 PM MDT * AT 704 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORDWAY...OR ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... ORDWAY AROUND 730 PM MDT SUGAR CITY AROUND 735 PM MDT CHERAW AROUND 800 PM MDT LA JUNTA AROUND 805 PM MDT AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL NEAR ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH. 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 3851 10395 3836 10405 3786 10340 3820 10339
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 71 min |
| Aug 9, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 118 min |
| Aug 9, 6:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 99 min |
| Aug 9, 7:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 83 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.