Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2003, 2:38 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 67 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 15, 2003, 2:38 PM MDT (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2003, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Baca County, CO
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 12:55 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 152038 SVRPUB COC009-152145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 238 PM MDT THU MAY 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 345 PM MDT * AT 238 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRITCHETT...OR ABOUT 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... CAMPO AROUND 245 PM MDT PRITCHETT AROUND 255 PM MDT SPRINGFIELD AROUND 305 PM MDT VILAS AROUND 310 PM MDT TWO BUTTES AROUND 325 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 3702 10305 3702 10261 3763 10229 3761 10303 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 64 min |
| May 15, 2:21 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | PUB | Teller | 84 min |
| May 15, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa | 62 min |
| May 15, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 59 min |
| May 15, 3:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
| May 15, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 66 min |
| May 15, 4:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 62 min |
| May 15, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 62 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.