Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 428
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2002, 12:00 PM MDT for 12 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2002, 12:00 PM MDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2002, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 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.
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Otero | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 114 min |
| Jun 15, 4:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Elbert | 57 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 384 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 11:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Prowers, Yuma | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 6 hr |
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.