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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 27, 2003Las Animas County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 10:13 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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, 10:13 PM MDT (04:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2003, 11:15 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Las Animas County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 306 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2003-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 55 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2003-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
55 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 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.

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 280413
SVRPUB
COC071-280515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1013 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 1115 PM MDT

* AT 1013 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRINIDAD...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  TRINIDAD AROUND 1020 PM MDT

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 3732 10458 3717 10470 3688 10421 3712 10404

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 4:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero52 min
Jun 28, 5:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent59 min
Jun 28, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBEl Paso91 min
Jun 28, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers60 min
Jun 28, 5:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa62 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.