Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
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.
- 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
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
WOODSSpecial 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
WOODSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 6:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Crowley | 50 min |
| Jun 7, 7:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Otero | 60 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.