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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 29, 2003Custer County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2003, 4:17 PM MDT for Custer County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 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 29, 2003, 4:17 PM MDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2003, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Custer County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 275 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2003-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 58 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2003-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 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.

714 
WUUS55 KPUB 292217
SVRPUB
COC027-292315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
416 PM MDT SUN JUN 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 416 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 8 MILES WEST OF WESTCLIFFE...OR ABOUT 35   
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALIDA...AND IT WAS STATIONARY.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  WESTERN CUSTER COUNTY

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 3809 10537 3823 10549 3821 10570 3798 10550

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 6:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca58 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.