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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Pueblo, CO

August 21, 2002El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2002, 5:31 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 59 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 21, 2002, 5:31 PM MDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
Aug 21, 2002, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 12:00Z on 2002-08-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2002-08-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-207 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2205 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 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.

954 
WUUS55 KPUB 212331
SVRPUB
COC041-220030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
528 PM MDT WED AUG 21 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 528 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE    
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER FORT CARSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15  
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  COLORADO SPRINGS
  CENTRAL EL PASO AND WESTERN EL PASO COUNTIES

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.

LAT...LON 3882 10492 3857 10489 3859 10413 3912 10432

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.