Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1986, 4:18 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1986, 4:18 PM MDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1986, 5:18 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pueblo 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 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 102220 SVRPUB COC101-102318- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 418 PM MDT SUN AUG 10 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 518 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO...PUEBLO..TO INCLUDE THE CITY OF PUEBLO. AT 416 PM MDT HEAVY RAINS AND 3/4 INCH TO ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN PUEBLO. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA..GO TO A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER LOW AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING. REMEMBER... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OF OVER 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAINS THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA. THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF ONE IS SPOTTED. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAWi ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO. GALLEGOS
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, Aug 10, 2:14 PM MDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 210 PM MDT SUN AUG 10 1986 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY COLORADO... AT 210 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST EL PASO COUNTY COLORADO INCLUDING THE NORTH AND WEST SECTIONS OF COLORADO SPRINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..INTENSE LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO..T.V. OR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO STATLION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THESE STORMS. HUBER
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 3:44 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
343 PM MDT SUN AUG 10 1986
...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN PUEBLO COUNTY...
AT 340 PM MDT HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTH PUEBLO COUNTY
WITH THE HEAVIEST ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF PUEBLO
MOVING TOWARDS THE CITY OF PUEBLO. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE
BRIEF HEAVY RAINS..HAIL AND STRONG WINDS AS IT MOVES OVER THE
CITY DURING THE NEXT 5 MINUTES.
OTHER STORMS WERE ALONG THE FOOTHILBLS FROM COLORADO SPRINGS TO
TO TRINIDAD.
GALLEGOSNearby
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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.