Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 17, 2003El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2003, 3:03 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 87 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 17, 2003, 3:03 PM MDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2003, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 87 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County El Paso County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 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.

608 
WUUS55 KPUB 172103
SVRPUB
COC041-172230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
300 PM MDT TUE JUN 17 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT

* AT 300 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO SPRINGS...
  MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...  
  NORTHERN COLORADO SPRINGS AND OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHERN EL PASO     
  COUNTY.

AT 255 PM AN AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTER SAW 3/4 INCH DIAMETER HAIL AT 
WOODMEN AND AUSTIN BLUFFS.  AT 300 PM ANOTHER SPOTTER SAW 3/4 INCH 
DIAMETER HAIL AT VICKERS AND UNION IN COLORADO SPRINGS.

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL NEAR ONE
INCH IN DIAMETER. IF POSSIBLE...WITHOUT RISKING YOUR SAFETY...PROTECT
PROPERTY BEFORE THE WEATHER HITS.

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 3903 10484 3886 10485 3885 10441 3908 10447

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 6:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	56 min
Jun 16, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley	64 min
Jun 17, 1:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Teller	61 min
Jun 17, 2:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	58 min
Jun 17, 3:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Custer	57 min

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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.