Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2003, 3:54 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 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, 3:54 PM MDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2003, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 12:55 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
992 WUUS55 KPUB 152154 SVRPUB COC061-099-152300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 353 PM MDT THU MAY 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 500 PM MDT * AT 353 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILEY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMAR...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE... QUEENS RESERVOIR AROUND 400 PM MDT TOWNER AROUND 440 PM MDT AT THIS TIME THE MOST LIKELY KIND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS HAIL ONE TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 70 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. THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM WHICH COULD INTENSIFY AND PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE WARNING GET INDOORS AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION. LAT...LON 3827 10274 3797 10272 3837 10167 3862 10180 $$
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, 2:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 67 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.