Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2003, 10:09 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 36 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 2, 2003, 10:09 PM MDT (04:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 10:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:10 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 2, 10:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 445 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
731 WUUS55 KPUB 030409 SVRPUB COC061-030445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1009 PM MDT MON JUN 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 1045 PM MDT * AT 1009 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HASWELL...OR ABOUT 42 MILES NORTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... EADS AROUND 1020 PM MDT NEE GRANDE RESERVOIR...SWEETWATER RESERVOIR...NEE NOSHE RESERVOIR...CHIVINGTON AROUND 1030 PM MDT BRANDON AROUND 1035 PM MDT SHERIDAN LAKE AROUND 1040 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 3860 10319 3828 10344 3830 10215 3858 10215 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 10:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 11:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero, Pueblo | 56 min |
| Jun 3, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2003Every 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.