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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO

May 15, 2003Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2003, 4:28 PM MDT for Baca 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: May 15, 2003, 4:28 PM MDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2003, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baca County, CO

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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 628 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

255 
WUUS55 KPUB 152228
SVRPUB
COC009-152330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
428 PM MDT THU MAY 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT

* AT 428 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES SOUTH OF CAMPO...OR ABOUT 28 MILES
  SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...
  CAMPO AROUND 435 PM MDT
  SPRINGFIELD AROUND 505 PM MDT
  VILAS AROUND 510 PM MDT
  WALSH...STONINGTON AROUND 520 PM MDT
  BARTLETT AROUND 530 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. GET INDOORS 
AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE 
BEST PROTECTION.

THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BACA COUNTY...WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 
PM WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

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 3698 10274 3689 10255 3702 10206 3747 10207
          3763 10208 3764 10258

$$

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, 3:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	66 min
May 15, 4:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	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.