Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1986, 11:10 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1986, 11:10 PM MDT (05:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1986, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kiowa County, CO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 12, 9:10 PM MDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
910 PM MST MON MAY 12 1986
...THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
EARLY NIGHTTIME THUNDERSTORMS..ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASIONAL
STRONG GUSTY WINDS..ARE OCCURRING IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO IN SOUTH
LINCOLN COUNTY ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF LIMON NEAR KARVEL AND IN WEST
CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE WILLS NEAR
WILD HORSE.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE
MOVING INTO KANSAS BY MIDNIGHT MDT.
PERSON IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND BE WATCHFUL OF RAPID RUNNING WATER IN LOW LYING
AREAS.
N
STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS.
NOVAKSpecial weather statement, May 12, 9:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..CORRECTION..
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
910 PM MST MON MAY 12 1986
...THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
EARLY NIGHTTIME THUNDERSTORMS..ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASIONAL
STRONG GUSTY WINDS..ARE OCCURRING IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO IN SOUTH
LINCOLN COUNTY ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF LIMON NEAR KARVEL AND IN WEST
CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS NEAR
WILD HORSE.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE
MOVING INTO KANSAS BY MIDNIGHT MDT.
PERSON IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND BE WATCHFUL OF RAPID RUNNING WATER IN LOTW LYING
AREAS.
STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS.
NOVAKSpecial weather statement, May 12, 10:46 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1040 PM MDT MON MAY 12 1986
...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO KIOWA COUNTY...
AT 1035 PM MDT TWO VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO NORTHERN
AND NORTHWESTERN KIOWA COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. ONE STORM WAS
OVER THE KIOWA..CHEYENNE COUNTY LINES NORTH OF CHIVINGTON. THIS VERY
STRONG STORM HAS PRODUCED FUNNEL CLOUDS AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST 30 MPH.
ANOTHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN NORTHWEST KIOWA COUNTY..WEST OF
GALATEA. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST 30 MILES AN HOUR.
PERSONS ON THE AREA OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO
FUNNEL CLOUDS..POSSIBLE HAIL..STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL.
THE STORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN KIOWA..SOUTHERN
CHEYENNE COUNTY LINES UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT.
STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS
OR WARNINGS.
GRAYNearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.