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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 28, 2003Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2003, 4:08 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 52 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 28, 2003, 4:08 PM MDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2003, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Otero County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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 28, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 2521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 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.

357 
WUUS55 KPUB 282208 CCA
SVRPUB
COC089-282300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
407 PM MDT SAT JUN 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM MDT

* AT 407 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 8 MILES EAST OF TIMPAS...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  LA JUNTA...SWINK...ROCKY FORD AROUND 435 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.

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 3766 10399 3765 10342 3809 10340 3809 10381

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 10:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	62 min
Jun 28, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	59 min
Jun 28, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	El Paso	91 min
Jun 28, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	60 min
Jun 28, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	62 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.