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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 8, 1986Bent County, Kiowa County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1986, 2:45 PM MDT for Bent County, Kiowa County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1986, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1986, 3:45 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bent County, CO, 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 12:00Z on 1986-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 117 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 12:00Z on 1986-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 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
117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-286 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
776 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Jun 8, 1:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
110 PM MDT SUN JUN 8 1986

    ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN HUERFANO COUNTY...

AT 110 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN HUERFANO COUNTY
SOUTH OF WALSENBURG. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS OVER
SOUTHEAST COLORADO. SEVERE STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND
STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY OVER EASTERN COLORADO INTO
TONIGHT.

STAY TUNED TO RADIO TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATIONS AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO
WOODS
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:24 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
225 PM MDT SUN JUN 8 1986

 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST COLORADO UNTIL
      800 PM MDT...

AT 225 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN WESTERN PUEBLO
COUNTY JUST NORTH OF BEULAH. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 15 MILES
AND HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN PUEBLO
AND EASTERN HUERFANO COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO. MOVEMENT WAS
TO THE NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS OVER
SOUTHEAST COLORADO. SEVERE STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND
STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE OVER EASTERN COLORADO INTO THE NIGHT.

STAY TUNED TO RADIO TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATIONS AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO
WOODS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 6:10 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBCrowley50 min
Jun 7, 7:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers60 min
Jun 8, 3:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa, Otero60 min

Nearby

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.