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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 29, 2003Otero County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2003, 8:36 PM MDT for Otero County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 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, 8:36 PM MDT (02:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2003, 9:15 PM MDT
In force: 39 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), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 293 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 300236 CCA
SVRPUB
COC089-300315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED HAIL REPORT TIME.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
830 PM MDT SUN JUN 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM MDT

* AT 830 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER EAST CENTRAL OTERO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF LA JUNTA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF...
  EASTERN OTERO COUNTY

AT 818 PM THE PUBLIC SAW 1 1/4 INCH DIAMETER HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF 
LA JUNTA.

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 3797 10355 3779 10354 3779 10340 3798 10340

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 6:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	86 min
Jun 29, 7:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	67 min
Jun 29, 8:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Otero	42 min
Jun 29, 8:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	90 min
Jun 30, 12:41 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Otero	3 hr
Jun 30, 3:39 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	PUB	Otero	2 hr

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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.