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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 31, 2003El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2003, 2:03 PM MDT for El Paso County, Teller County, Colorado. It was in force for 57 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: May 31, 2003, 2:03 PM MDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2003, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties El Paso County, CO, Teller County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -309 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 266 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.

378 
WUUS55 KPUB 312003
SVRPUB
COC041-119-312100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
200 PM MDT SAT MAY 31 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM MDT

* AT 200 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 3 MILES EAST OF WOODLAND PARK...OR ABOUT 14
  MILES NORTHWEST OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...  
  WOODLAND PARK BY 205 PM
  AIR FORCE ACADEMY BY 210 PM
  COLORADO SPRINGS BY 230 PM

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING. IF CAUGHT OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY
FROM WATER...METAL OBJECTS...AND ISOLATED TALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES.
IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING THE
TELEPHONE UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. IF POSSIBLE...UNPLUG ANY
UNNECESSARY APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM HITS.

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 3911 10510 3884 10510 3883 10459 3910 10458

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 2:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	59 min
May 31, 3:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	57 min
May 31, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Huerfano	61 min
May 31, 4:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	53 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.