Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 1986, 8:50 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 1986, 8:50 PM MDT (02:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 1986, 9:50 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 00:00Z, 2.8 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
- 280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPUB 220251 SVRPUB COC101-220349- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 850 PM MDT THU AUG 21 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 950 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO...PUEBLO..TO INCLUDE THE CITY OF PUEBLO. AT 850 PM MDT HEAVY RAINS..GUSTY WINDS AND 1/4 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 LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO. WOODS
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 21, 8:06 PM MDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
805 PM MDT THU AUG 21 1986
...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN PUEBLO COUNTY...
AT 805 PM MDT A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM
NORTHWEST TO SOUTHWEST PUEBLO COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF THE
CITY OF PUEBLO. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
THE CITY OF PUEBLO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20
MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING OVER THE CITY OF PUEBLO.
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING IN SOUTHEAST
COLORADO..THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS..HAIL AND BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN. PERSONS NEAR STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED
TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPlROACHES.
FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. YOU SHOULD
STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST
INFORMATION.
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.