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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 1, 2003Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2003, 1:15 PM MDT for Crowley County, Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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: Jun 1, 2003, 1:15 PM MDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2003, 2:15 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Crowley County, CO, Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 1, 12:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -273 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 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.

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 011915
SVRPUB
COC025-089-012015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
115 PM MDT SUN JUN 1 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CROWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 215 PM MDT

* AT 115 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ORDWAY...OR ABOUT 19
  MILES NORTHWEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  ROCKY FORD AROUND 125 PM MDT
  SWINK...CHERAW AROUND 145 PM MDT
  LA JUNTA AROUND 200 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 10377 3811 10391 3778 10352 3824 10339

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 2:22 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.