Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 27, 2003Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 5:23 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 82 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 27, 2003, 5:23 PM MDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2003, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
82 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 205 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 225 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2003-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2003-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-36 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.

891 
WUUS55 KPUB 272323
SVRPUB
COC009-280045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
522 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT

* AT 522 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 3 MILES EAST OF VILAS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  EAST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  CENTRAL BACA COUNTY

AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL ONE TO
TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER. 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 3744 10226 3747 10248 3708 10261 3704 10228

$$

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.