Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1986, 7:16 PM MDT for Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1986, 7:16 PM MDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1986, 8:16 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, 1.3 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
- 385 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 16, 5:41 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
539 PM MDT MON JUN 16 1986
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN PUEBLO COUNTY...
AT 536 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF
PUEBLO IN PUEBLO COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 10 TO
15 MILES ANO HOUR AND WILL PROBABLY MOVE OVER THE CITY OF
PUEBLO BY 6 PM. HEAVY RAINS..HAIL..STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS.
OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO WERE IN
EAST HUERFANO AND WEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES AND EXTENDED INTO
NORTHERN NEW MEXICO.
PERONS NEAR THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REAMIN ALERT AND SEEK SHELTER
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
GALLEGOSSpecial weather statement, Jun 16, 6:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO 610 PM MDT MON JUN 16 1986 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS KIT CARSON AND LINCOLN COUNTIES COLORADO... AT 610 PM MDT THIS MONDAY EVENING RADAR INDICATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIMON AND IN NORTH CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF STRATTON. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..SMALL HAIL..BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND LOCAL FLOODING OF LOW LYI>NG AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE WEST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. HUBER
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:29 PM MDT, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
627 PM MDT MON JUN 16 1986
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN PUEBLO COUNTY...
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PUEBLO COUNTY IN
SOUTHEAST COLORADO. AT 625 PM THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE OVER RYE..
29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUEBLO..AND 5 MILES WEST OF PUEBLO AND WERE
MOVING NORTH TO NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO WERE IN
EAST HUERFANO AND WEST LAS ANIMAS COUNTIES AND EXTENDED INTO
NORTHERN NEW MEXICO.
THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS..HAIL..GUSTY
WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING
HOURS IN SOUTHEAST COLHORADO ESPECIALLY ALONG THE FRONT RANGE.
PERONS NEAR THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REAMIN ALERT AND SEEK SHELTER
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS MAY BE ISSUED IF CONDITIONS
WARRANT.
GALLEGOSNearby
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.