Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2002, 7:52 PM MDT for Bent County, Colorado. It was in force for 83 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
- Aug 9, 2002, 7:52 PM MDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2002, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bent County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:16 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Las Animas, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.
114
WUUS55 KPUB 100152
SVRPUB
COC011-100315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
752 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
* UNTIL 915 PM MDT
* AT 752 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAS ANIMAS...OR ABOUT
19 MILES NORTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
FORT LYON...LAS ANIMAS AROUND 810 PM MDT
HASTY...JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR AROUND 825 PM MDT
CADDOA...MCCLAVE AROUND 830 PM MDT
AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL AROUND
ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 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 10317 3825 10339 3804 10338 3771 10274
3813 10274The 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, 7:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Crowley, Otero | 86 min |
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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.