Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1986, 7:10 PM MDT for Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1986, 7:10 PM MDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1986, 8:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prowers 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2415 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 13.6
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 10, 4:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 400PM MDT THU JUL 10 1986 ... LATE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PIKES PEAK REGION ... LATE AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE STARTED THERE NORMAL PROGRESSION OFF THE FRONT RANGE. MOVEMENT IS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WIND ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY CONTINUE MOVING EASTWARD DURING THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOsON AND DURING THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. NOVAK
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 5:46 PM MDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
545 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 1986
...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INOT KIOWA COUNTY...
AT 545 PM MDT HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO NORTHERN KIOWA
COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF EADS IN
NORTH CENTRAL KIOWA COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES
AN HOUR.
PERSONS NEAR STORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO THE REST OF THIS EVENING
SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF BRIEF HEAVY RAINS..STRONG
GUSTY WINDS..HAIL AND LOCAL FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. IF THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER.
FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.
WOODSNearby
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.