Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2002, 4:58 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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
- Aug 20, 2002, 4:58 PM MDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2002, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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 20, 5:30 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Kim, CO | |
| Aug 20, 6:00 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Kim, 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 887 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
825 WUUS55 KPUB 202258 SVRPUB COC071-210000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 458 PM MDT TUE AUG 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 600 PM MDT * AT 458 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 6 MILES SOUTH OF TOBE...OR ABOUT 50 MILES EAST OF RATON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... KIM THROUGH 515 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 3727 10362 3703 10450 3703 10312 3752 10310
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 93 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.