Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2003, 11:19 PM MDT for Otero County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 56 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, 11:19 PM MDT (05:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2003, 12:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Otero County, CO, Pueblo County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:20 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 217 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.
446 WUUS55 KPUB 030519 SVRPUB COC089-101-030615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1118 PM MDT MON JUN 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO PUEBLO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 1215 AM MDT * AT 1118 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 4 MILES SOUTH OF FOWLER...OR ABOUT 27 MILES WEST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... ROCKY FORD AROUND 1130 PM MDT SWINK AROUND 1140 PM MDT TIMPAS AROUND 1145 PM MDT AT 1110 PM A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER SAW 1 AND 1/4 INCH DIAMETER HAIL AT NEPESTA. 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 3815 10410 3797 10424 3768 10361 3804 10360 $$ METZE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 10:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 36 min |
| Jun 2, 10:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 62 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.