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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Pueblo, CO

July 1, 1986Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1986, 7:00 PM MDT for Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1986, 7:00 PM MDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1986, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
60 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, 1.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1986-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 217 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 00:00Z on 1986-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3090 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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, Jul 1, 5:48 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
548 PM MDT TUE JUL 1 1986

   ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST PUEBLO COUNTY...

AT 535 PM MDT HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO NORTHEAST
PUEBLO COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO.
THESE STORM WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN
HOUR. STRONG WINDS HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS.
AT 535 PM MDT A WIND GUST OF 49 MPH WAS RECORDED AT THE
PUEBLO MEMORIAL AIRPORT.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER EASTERN
COLORADO INTO THE NIGHT. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..
HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO& A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.
WOODS
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 6:36 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
635 PM MDT TUE JUL 1 1986

 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN PUEBLO..CROWLEY AND KIOWA COUNTIES...

AT 635 PM MDT HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN PUEBLO COUNTY
15 MILES EAST OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO NEAR THE TOWN OF BOONE.
THESE STORM WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
OTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN NORTHERN CROWLEY
COUNTY 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA JUNTA AND NORTHWEST OF HASWELL
IN WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER EASTERN
COLORADO INTO THE NIGHT. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..
HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.
WOODS

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.